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1 MY brethren, be not many teachers, knowing that we shall receive a severer judgment. 2 For in many things we all offend. If any man offend not in word, he is a perfect man, and capable of reining in the whole body. 3 Behold, we put bits into the horses? mouths, that they may obey us, and we turn about their whole body. 4 Behold also the ships, though so great, and driven by tempestuous winds, are turned about by the smallest rudder, whithersoever the inclination of the pilot pleaseth. 5 So also the tongue is a little member, and proudly vaunts. Behold how great a pile of wood, a little fire kindleth! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: in such manner is the tongue placed among our members, that it defileth all the body, and setteth on fire the circle of nature; and is set on fire of hell. 7 For every species of wild beasts, and also of birds, of reptiles, and even of fishes, is tamed, and hath also been tamed by human ingenuity: 8 but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. James 3:1-8, Haweis New Testament. Public domain.
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