James 3:5

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Euen so the tongue is a litle member also, & boasteth great thynges. Beholde how great a matter a litle fire kindleth.

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  • Jer 9:3-8 : 3 They bend their tongues like vowes to shoote out lyes, they waxe strong vppon earth: As for the trueth, they may nothing away withall in the worlde, for they go from one wickednes to another, and wyll not knowe me, saith the Lorde. 4 Yea, one must kepe hym selfe from another, no man may safely trust his owne brother: for one brother vndermindeth another, one neighbour beguileth another. 5 Yea, one dissembleth with another, and they deale with no trueth: They haue practised their tongues to lye, and taken great paynes to do mischiefe. 6 Thou sittest in the middes of a deceiptfull people, which for very dissembling falshood wyll not knowe me, saith the Lorde. 7 Therefore thus saith the Lorde of hoastes: Beholde, I wyll melt them and trye them: for what shoulde I els do to my people? 8 Their tongues are like sharpe arrowes to speake deceipt: with their mouth they speake peaceablie to their neighbour, but priuilie they lay wayte for hym.
  • Ps 17:10 : 10 They haue nowe compassed me on euery syde where our way lyeth: they toote with their eyes to ouerthrow me downe on the grounde.
  • Ps 52:1-2 : 1 To the chiefe musition, a wyse instruction of Dauid, when Doeg the Edomite came to Saul and tolde him, saying: Dauid is come to the house of Achimelek. Why boastest thy self thou tiraunt of mischiefe? the goodnes of God dayly endureth. 2 Thy tongue imagineth wickednes: and deceaueth like a sharpe raser.
  • Ps 73:8-9 : 8 They make other dissolute, they speake oppression with iniurie: they talke proudely and presumptuously. 9 For they stretch foorth their mouth vnto the heauen: and their tongue goeth through the worlde.
  • Prov 12:18 : 18 A slaunderous person pricketh lyke a sworde: but a wise mans tongue is wholsome.
  • Prov 15:2 : 2 The tongue of such as be wise vseth knoweledge aryght: as for a foolishe mouth it babbleth out nothyng but foolishnesse.
  • Prov 18:21 : 21 Death and life are in the instrument of the tongue, and they that loue it, shall eate the fruite thereof.
  • Jer 18:18 : 18 Then sayd they, Come, let vs imagine somethyng agaynst this Ieremie: for the priestes shall not be destitute of the lawe, neither shall the wise men be destitute of counsayle, nor the prophetes destitute of the worde of God: Come, and let vs smite hym with the tongue, and let vs not marke all his wordes.
  • Ezek 28:2 : 2 Thou sonne of man, tel the prince of Tyre, thus sayth the Lorde God: Because thou hast a proude heart, and hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seate of God, in the mids of the sea: wher as thou art but a man, and not God, though thou set thyne heart as the heart of God.
  • Ps 10:3 : 3 For the vngodly prayseth according to his owne heartes desire: and blessing the couetous, he blasphemeth God.
  • Ps 12:2-4 : 2 Euery one vseth vayne talke with his neyghbour: and speaketh with a double heart out of flatteryng lippes. 3 God wyll cut away all flatteryng lippes: and the tongue that speaketh great thinges. 4 Whiche say, we wyll preuayle with our tongue: our lippes are our owne, who is Lorde ouer vs?
  • Rev 13:5-6 : 5 And there was geuen vnto hym a mouth, that spake great thynges and blasphemies, and power was geuen vnto hym, to do.xlij. monethes. 6 And he opened his mouth vnto blasphemie agaynst God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heauen.
  • Jude 1:16 : 16 These are murmurers, complayners, walkyng after their owne lustes, whose mouthes speake proude thynges. They haue men in great reuerence because of aduantage.
  • Dan 3:15 : 15 Nowe therfore be redy when ye heare the sound of the cornet, trumpet, harpe, shawme, psaltries, dulcimers, and al instrumentes of musicke, to fal downe and worship the image whiche I haue made: for if ye worship it not, ye shalbe cast immediatly into the mids of a hot firie fornace: for who is that God that can deliuer you out of my handes?
  • Dan 4:30 : 30 And the king spake, & sayd: Is not this great Babylon that I haue buylt for the house of the kingdome by the might of my power, and for the honour of my maiestie?
  • 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For when they haue spoken the great swellyng wordes of vanitie, they entice through lustes in the voluptuousnesse of the fleshe, them that were cleane escaped, from them whiche are wrapped in errour,
  • Exod 15:9 : 9 The enemie sayde, I wyll folowe on the I wyll ouertake them I wyll deuide the spoyle, and my lust shalbe satisfied vppon them: I wyll drawe my sworde, myne hande shall destroy them.
  • 2 Kgs 19:22-24 : 22 Whom hast thou rayled on? and whom hast thou blasphemed? Against whom hast thou exalted thy voyce, and lyfted vp thyne eyes so hye? Euen against the holy of Israel. 23 By the hande of thy messengers thou hast rayled on the Lord, and sayd: With the multitude of my charets I am come vp to the toppes of the mountaynes, euen along by the sides of Libanon, and I will cut downe the hye Cedar trees and the lusty fyrre trees therof: and I will go into the lodging of his borders, and into the wood of his Carmel. 24 I haue digged and druncke straunge waters: & with the steppe of my goyng wil I drye al the water pooles that are besieged.
  • Job 21:14-15 : 14 They say also vnto God: Go from vs, we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes. 15 Who is the almightie that we should serue him? And what profite should we haue if we should pray vnto him?
  • Job 22:17 : 17 Whiche sayd vnto God, Go from vs: and asked what the almightie coulde do for them?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jas 3:6-10
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    6And the tongue is fyre, euen a worlde of wickednesse. So is the tongue set among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fyre the course of nature, & it is set on fyre of hell.

    7All the natures of beastes, & of byrdes, and of serpentes, and thynges of the sea, are meeked and tamed of the nature of man:

    8But the tongue can no man tame, it is an vnruly euyll, full of deadly poyson.

    9Therwith blesse we God the father: and therwith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.

    10Out of one mouth proceadeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these thynges ought not so to be.

  • Jas 3:2-4
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    2For in many thynges we sinne all. If a man sinne not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle all the body.

    3Beholde, we put bittes in the horses mouthes, that they may obey vs, and we turne about all the body of them:

    4Beholde also ye shippes, which though they be so great, and are dryuen of fierce windes, yet are they turned about with a very small helme, whither soeuer the violence of the gouernour wyll.

  • Prov 15:4
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    4A wholsome tongue is a tree of lyfe: but the frowardnesse therof doth make sad the spirite.

  • Prov 10:19-20
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    19Where much babblyng is, there must needes be offence: and he that refrayneth his lippes, is wyse.

    20The tongue of the iust man is as tried siluer: but the heart of the vngodly is a thyng of naught.

  • Prov 15:1-2
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    1A soft aunswere appeaseth wrath: but rough wordes stirre vp anger.

    2The tongue of such as be wise vseth knoweledge aryght: as for a foolishe mouth it babbleth out nothyng but foolishnesse.

  • Prov 21:23
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    23Who so kepeth his mouth and his tongue, the same kepeth his soule from troubles.

  • Job 15:5
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    5For thy mouth setteth forth thyne owne iniquitie, seeing thou hast chosen the tongue of the craftie.

  • Prov 10:31
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    31The mouth of the iust wyll be talking of wisdome: but the tongue of the frowarde shall be cut out.

  • Prov 14:3
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    3In the mouth of the foolishe is the rodde of pryde: but the lippes of the wyse wyll preserue them.

  • Prov 16:27
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    27An vngodly person stirreth vp euyll, and in his lippes he is as an hotte burnyng fyre.

  • Prov 18:20-21
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    20A mans belly shalbe satisfied with the fruite of his owne mouth, and with the encrease of his lippes shall he be filled.

    21Death and life are in the instrument of the tongue, and they that loue it, shall eate the fruite thereof.

  • Gal 5:9
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    9A litle leauen, doth leauen the whole lumpe of dowe.

  • Ps 12:3-4
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    3God wyll cut away all flatteryng lippes: and the tongue that speaketh great thinges.

    4Whiche say, we wyll preuayle with our tongue: our lippes are our owne, who is Lorde ouer vs?

  • Isa 9:18
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    18For vngodlynesse burneth as a fire, and shall deuour bryers and thornes, and it shall burne as in the thicket of a wood, and the wicked aduaunce them selues, as the smoke is caryed vp.

  • Prov 6:27
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    27May a man take fire in his bosome, and his clothes not be brent?

  • Ps 83:14
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    14Lyke as a fire that burneth vp the wood: and as the flambe that consumeth the mountaynes.

  • Jer 5:14
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    14Wherfore thus saith the Lorde God of hoastes, Because ye speake such wordes, beholde, the wordes that are in thy mouth wyll I turne to fire, and make the people to be wood, that the fire may consume them.

  • Ezek 15:4-5
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    4Behold, it is cast in the fire to be brent, the fire consumeth both the endes of it, the middes of it is brent: is it meete then for any worke?

    5Seeing then that it was meete for no worke beyng whole, muche lesse may there any thing be made of it when the fire hath consumed and brent it.

  • Prov 13:3
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    3He that kepeth his mouth, kepeth his lyfe: but who so rashlye openeth his lippes, destroyeth hym selfe.

  • Jas 1:26
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    26If any man among you seeme to be deuout, and refrayneth not his tongue, but deceaueth his owne heart, this mans deuotion is vayne.

  • Ps 39:3
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    3My heart was hotte within me, and whyle I was thus musyng the fire kyndled: and at the last I spake with my tongue.

  • Job 41:21
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    21His breath maketh the coles burne, and the flambe goeth out of his mouth.

  • Prov 26:21
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    21As coles kindle heate, and wood the fire: euen so doth a brawling felowe stirre vp variaunce.

  • 1 Pet 3:10
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    10For he that doeth long after lyfe, and loueth to see good dayes, let hym refrayne his tongue from euyll, and his lippes, that they speake no guyle.

  • Prov 12:18
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    18A slaunderous person pricketh lyke a sworde: but a wise mans tongue is wholsome.

  • Ps 120:3
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    3What doth a deceiptfull tongue vnto thee? what good bryngeth it thee?

  • Jas 1:19
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    19Wherfore my deare brethre, let euery man be swyft to heare, slowe to speake, slowe to wrath.

  • 1 Cor 5:6
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    6Your reioycing is not good. Knowe ye not, that a litle leauen leaueneth the whole lumpe?

  • Prov 25:23
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    23The northwinde dryueth away the rayne: euen so doth an angry countenaunce a backbiters tongue.

  • Rom 3:14
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    14Whose mouth is full of cursyng and bytternesse.

  • Ps 50:19
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    19Thou hast let thy mouth speake wickednesse: and with thy tongue thou hast set foorth deceipt.

  • Prov 25:15
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    15With pacience is a prince pacified, and with a softe tongue is rigorousnesse broken.

  • Prov 26:18
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    18As he that fayneth him selfe mad, casteth firebrandes, deadly arrowes and dartes:

  • Eccl 10:12
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    12The wordes out of a wyse mans mouth are gratious: but the lippes of a foole wyll destroy him selfe.

  • Ps 52:2
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    2Thy tongue imagineth wickednes: and deceaueth like a sharpe raser.

  • Job 15:13
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    13That thy minde is so pufte vp against God, and lettest such wordes go out of thy mouth?

  • Ps 10:7
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    7His mouth is full of cursing, and of deceate, and of fraude: vnder his tongue is labour and mischiefe.

  • Job 22:20
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    20Is our substaunce bewen downe? As for the remnaunt of them the fire hath consumed.

  • Matt 12:36
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    36But I say vnto you, of euery idell worde that men shall speake, they shall geue accompt therof, in the day of iudgment.