James 3:1-6

Goodspeed(i) 1 Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. 2 For we all make many mistakes. Anyone who never makes a mistake in what he says has a character that is fully developed and is able to control his whole body as well. 3 If we put bridles into horses' mouths to make them obey us, we can guide their whole bodies. 4 Even ships, great as they are, and driven by strong winds, are steered with a very small rudder wherever the pilot pleases. 5 So the tongue is a little organ and yet very boastful. What a great forest a spark will set on fire! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of wrong the tongue proves in our bodies, soiling the whole body and setting fire to the whole round of nature, and set on fire itself by hell.