James 3:6

Overview - James 3
We are not rashly or arrogantly to reprove others;
but rather to bridle the tongue, a little member, but a powerful instrument of much good, and great harm.
13 They who are truly wise are mild and peaceable without envying and strife.
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James 3:6  (King James Version)
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
 


the tongue
Judges 12:4-6 ; 2 Samuel 19:43 ; 20:1 2 Chronicles 10:13-16 ; 13:17 Psalms 64:3 ; 140:3
Proverbs 15:1 ; 16:27 Proverbs 26:20 Proverbs 26:21 Isaiah 30:27

a world
2:7 Genesis 3:4-6 ; Leviticus 24:11 ; Numbers 25:2 ; 31:16 Deuteronomy 13:6 ; Judges 16:15-20
1 Samuel 22:9-17 ; 2 Samuel 13:26-29 ; 15:2-6 16:20-23 2 Samuel 17:1 2 Samuel 17:2 1 Kings 21:5-15
Proverbs 1:10-14 ; 6:19 Proverbs 7:5 Proverbs 7:21-23 Jeremiah 20:10 ; 28:16 Matthew 12:24 Matthew 12:32-36
Matthew 15:11-20 ; Mark 7:15 Mark 7:20-22 ; 14:55-57 Acts 6:13 ; 20:30 Romans 3:13 Romans 3:14
Romans 16:17 Romans 16:18 ; Ephesians 5:3 Ephesians 5:4 ; Colossians 3:8 Colossians 3:9 ; 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 ; Titus 1:11 ; 2 Peter 2:1 2 Peter 2:2
2 Peter 3:3 ; 3 John 1:10 ; Jude 1:8-10 Jude 1:15-18 ; Revelation 2:14 Revelation 2:15 ; Revelation 13:1-5 Revelation 13:14 18:23
Revelation 19:20

it is
Luke 16:24 ; Acts 5:3 ; 2 Corinthians 11:13-15 ; 2 Thessalonians 2:9 ; Revelation 12:9