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1 Be ye not many teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive the greater judgment. 2 For in many things we all stumble. If any stumble not in word, this a perfect man, able to govern by a bridle also the whole body. 3 Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they should yield to us; and we lead their whole body. 4 Behold also ships, being so great, and driven by hard winds, are led by the smallest rudder, wherever the desire of him steering should will. 5 So also the tongue is a small member, and vaunts itself. Behold, how great a wood a little fire inflames. 6 (And the tongue a fire, a world of iniquity: so the tongue is placed in our members, defiling the whole body, and burning the wheel of creation; and burned by hell. 7 For every nature of beasts, and also of birds, of creeping things, and also of things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by the nature of man: 8 And the tongue none of men can tame; an ungovernable evil, full of deadly poison. James 3:1-8, Smith's Literal Translation. Public domain.
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