James 3:5-9

JuliaSmith(i) 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. 9 With it we praise the God and Father; and with it we curse men, those made according to the similitude of God.