LITV(i)
1 My brothers do not be many teachers, knowing that we will receive greater judgment.
2 For we all stumble in many ways . If any one does not stumble in word, this one is a mature man, able also to bridle the whole body.
3 Behold, we put bits in the mouths of the horses, for them to obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
4 Behold, the ships also, being so great, and being driven by violent winds, they are directed by a very small rudder, where the impulse of the one steering purposes.
5 So also the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how little a fire kindles how large a forest!
6 And the tongue is a fire, the world of iniquity. So the tongue is set among our members, spotting all the body, and inflaming the course of nature, and having been inflamed by Hell.
7 For every species of beasts, both indeed of birds, of creeping things, and of sea animals, is tamed, and has been tamed by the human species;
8 but no one of men is able to tame the tongue; it is an evil that cannot be restrained, full of death-dealing poison.
9 By this we bless God and the Father; and by this we curse men having come into being according to the image of God. Gen. 1:26
10 Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers it is not fitting for these things to be so.