James 3:1-12 (New American Standard)
View In My BibleThe Tongue Is a Fire
1 1Let not many of you become teachers, 2my brethren, knowing that as such we will incur a astricter judgment. 2 For we all 3stumble in many ways. 4If anyone does not stumble in bwhat he says, he is a 5perfect man, able to 6bridle the whole body as well. 3 Now 7if we put the bits into the horses' mouths so that they will obey us, we direct their entire body as well. 4 Look at the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by strong winds, are still directed by a very small rudder wherever the inclination of the pilot desires. 5 So also the tongue is a small part of the body, and yet it 8boasts of great things. 9See how great a forest is set aflame by such a small fire ! 6 And 10the tongue is a fire, the very world of iniquity ; the tongue is set among our members as that which 11defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our clife, and is set on fire by d12hell. 7 For every especies of beasts and birds, of reptiles and creatures of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by the human frace. 8 But no one can tame the tongue ; it is a restless evil and full of 13deadly poison. 9 With it we bless 14our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, 15who have been made in the likeness of God ; 10 from the same mouth come both blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be this way. 11 Does a fountain send out from the same opening both gfresh and bitter water? 12 16Can a fig tree, my brethren, produce olives, or a vine produce figs ? Nor can salt water produce hfresh.New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, California. All rights reserved. (New American Standard Version - Holy Bible)
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