James 3:5-12 (New Revised Standard)
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So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great exploits. How great a forest is set ablaze by a small fire!
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And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is placed among our members as a world of iniquity; it stains the whole body, sets on fire the cycle of nature, a and is itself set on fire by hell. b
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For every species of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by the human species,
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but no one can tame the tongue—a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
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With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse those who are made in the likeness of God.
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From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers and sisters, c this ought not to be so.
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Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and brackish water?
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Can a fig tree, my brothers and sisters, d yield olives, or a grapevine figs? No more can salt water yield fresh.
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a.
James 3:6 - Or [wheel of birth]
b.
James 3:6 - Gk [Gehenna]
c.
James 3:10 - Gk [My brothers]
d.
James 3:12 - Gk [my brothers]