James 3:5

Coverdale Bible (1535)

Euen so the toge is a lyttell member, and bosteth great thinges. Beholde how gret a thinge a lyttell fyre kyndleth,

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  • Jer 9:3-8 : 3 They bede their tuges like bowes, to shute out lies: As for the treuth, they maye nothinge awaye with all in the worlde. For they go from one wickednes to another, and holde nothinge of me, saieth the LORDE. 4 Yee one must kepe himself from another, no man maye safely trust his owne brother: for one brother vndermyneth another, & one neghboure begyleth another. 5 Yee one dissembleth with another, and they deale with no treuth. They haue practised their tunges to lye, and taken greate paynes to do myschefe. 6 They haue set their stole in the myddest of disceate, and (for very dissemblinge falsede) they wil not knowe me, saieth the LORDE. 7 Therfore thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes, beholde, I wil melte them and trie the, for what shulde I els do to my people? 8 Their tunges are like sharpe arowes, to speake disceate. With their mouth they speake peaceably to their neghboure, but preuely they laye waite for him.
  • Ps 17:10 : 10 Which manteyne their owne welthynesse with oppression, & their mouth speaketh proude thinges.
  • Ps 52:1-2 : 1 Why boastest thou thy self (thou Tyraunt) that thou canst do myschefe? 2 Where as the goodnesse of God endureth yet daylie.
  • Ps 73:8-9 : 8 Corrupte are they, and speake blasphemies maliciously, proude and presumptuous are their wordes. 9 They stretch forth their mouth vnto the heauen, & their tonge goeth thorow the worlde.
  • Prov 12:18 : 18 A slaunderous personne pricketh like a swerde, but a wyse mans tonge is wholsome.
  • Prov 15:2 : 2 A wyse tonge commendeth knowlege, a foolish mouth blabbeth out nothinge but foolishnesse.
  • Prov 18:21 : 21 Death and life stonde in the power of the tonge, he that loueth it, shal enioye the frute therof.
  • Jer 18:18 : 18 Then sayde they: come, let vs ymagin somthinge agaynst this Ieremy. Yee this dyd euen the prestes, to whom ye lawe was commytted: the Senatours, yt were the wysest: and the prophetes, which wanted not ye worde off God. Come (sayde they) let vs cut out his tuge, and let vs not regarde his wordes.
  • Ezek 28:2 : 2 Thou sonne of man, tell the prynce of Tyre: Thus saieth the LORDE God: because thou hast a proude hert and hast sayde: I am a God, I haue my seate in the myddest off the see like a god: where as thou art but a man & not God, & yet stondest in thine owne coceate, that thou art God:
  • Ps 10:3 : 3 For the vngodly maketh boost of his owne hertes desyre, the cuvetous blesseth him self, and blasphemeth the LORDE.
  • Ps 12:2-4 : 2 Euery man telleth lyes to his neghbor, they do but flater with their lippes and dissemble in their herte. 3 O that the LORDE wolde rote out all disceatfull lippes, ad the tonge that speaketh proude thinges. 4 Which saye: Oure toge shulde preuayle: we are they that ought to speake, who is lorde ouer vs?
  • Rev 13:5-6 : 5 And there was geuen vnto him a mouth to speake greate thinges & blasphemies, and power was geuen vnto him, to do xlij. monethes. 6 And he opened his mouth vnto blasphemy agaynst God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle and them that dwell in heauen.
  • Jude 1:16 : 16 These are murmurers, complaners, walkynge after their awne lustes, whose mouthes speake proude thynges. They haue me in greate reuerence because of avauntage.
  • Dan 3:15 : 15 wel, be redy herafter, when ye heare the noyse of the tropettes, blowne with the harpes, shawmes, psalteries, symphonies and all ye other melodies: that ye fall downe, and worshipe the ymage which I haue made. But yff ye worshipe it not, ye shal be cast immediatly in to an hote burnynge ouen. Let se, what god is there, yt maye delyuer you out of my hondes?
  • Dan 4:30 : 30 and sayde: This is the greate cite off Babilo, which I myself (with my power & strength) haue made a kynges courte, for the honoure off my magesty.
  • 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For they speake ye proude wordes of vanite, vnto ye vttemost, and entyse thorow wantannes vnto ye luste of the flesh, euen them that were cleane escaped, and now walke in erroure:
  • Exod 15:9 : 9 The enemie thought: I will folowe vpon them, and ouertake them, and deuyde ye spoyle, and coole my mynde vpon them. I wil drawe out my swerde, and my hande shal destroye them.
  • 2 Kgs 19:22-24 : 22 Whom hast thou despysed & blasphemed? Ouer whom hast thou lifte vp thy voyce? Eue agaynst ye holy one in Israel hast thou lifte vp thine eyes: 23 thou hast blasphemed ye LORDE by thy messaungers, and sayde: Thorow the multitude of my charettes haue I gone vp to the toppes of the mountaynes, vpon the sydes of Libanus. I haue hewen downe his hye Ceders and his chosen Pyne trees, and am come to the vttemost habitacion of the wod of Carmel that belongeth vnto it. 24 I haue dygged and dronke vp the straunge waters, and with ye soles of my fete haue I dryed vp the See.
  • Job 21:14-15 : 14 They saye vnto God: go from vs, we desyre not the knowlege of thy wayes. 15 What maner of felowe is the Allmightie, that we shulde serue him? What profit shulde we haue, to submitte oure selues vnto him?
  • Job 22:17 : 17 which saye vnto God: go from vs, and after this maner: Tush, what wil the Allmightie do vnto vs?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jas 3:6-10
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    87%

    6and the tonge is fyre, and a worlde of wyckednes. So is the tonge set amonge oure membres, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth a fyre all that we haue of nature, and is it selfe set a fyre euen of hell.

    7All the natures of beastes, and of byrdes, and of serpentes, and thinges of the see, are meked and tamed of the nature of ma.

    8But the toge can no man tame. Yt is an vnruely euell full of deedly poysou.

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

    10Out of one mouth proceadeth blessynge and cursynge. My brethre these thinges ought not so to be.

  • Jas 3:2-4
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    2for in many thinges we synne all. Yf a man synne not in worde, the same is a parfecte man, & able to tame all the body.

    3Beholde, we put bittes into the horses mouthes yt they shulde obeye vs, and we turne aboute all the body.

    4Beholde also ye shyppes, which though they be so gret, and are dryuen of fearce windes, yet are they turned about with a very smale helme, whither soeuer the violence of the gouerner wyll.

  • Prov 15:4
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    4A wholsome tonge is a tre of life, but he that abuseth it, hath a broken mynde.

  • Prov 10:19-20
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    71%

    19Where moch bablinge is, there must nedes be offence: he that refrayneth his lippes, is wysest of all.

    20An innocent tonge is a noble treasure, but the herte of the vngodly is nothinge worth.

  • Prov 15:1-2
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    70%

    1A softe aswere putteth downe displeasure, but frowarde wordes prouoke vnto anger.

    2A wyse tonge commendeth knowlege, a foolish mouth blabbeth out nothinge but foolishnesse.

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

  • Job 15:5
    69%

    5but thy wickednesse teacheth thy mouth, and so thou hast chosen the a craftie tonge.

  • Prov 10:31
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    31The mouth of the iust wilbe talkynge of wysdome, but the tonge of the frowarde shal perish.

  • Prov 14:3
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    3In the mouth of the foolish is the boostinge of lordshipe, but ye lippes of ye wyse wilbe warre of soch.

  • Prov 16:27
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    27An vngodly personne stereth vp euell, and in his lippes he is as an whote burnynge fyre.

  • Prov 18:20-21
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    68%

    20A mans bely shalbe satisfied with the frute of his owne mouth, and with the increase of his lippes shal he be fylled.

    21Death and life stonde in the power of the tonge, he that loueth it, shal enioye the frute therof.

  • Gal 5:9
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    9A litle leuen sowreth the whole lompe of dowe.

  • Ps 12:3-4
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    68%

    3O that the LORDE wolde rote out all disceatfull lippes, ad the tonge that speaketh proude thinges.

    4Which saye: Oure toge shulde preuayle: we are they that ought to speake, who is lorde ouer vs?

  • Isa 9:18
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    18For the vngodly burne, as a fyre in the bryers and thornes: And as it were out of a fyre in a wod or a redebush, so ascendeth the smoke of their pryde.

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

  • Ps 83:14
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    14Like as a fyre that burneth vp the wodd, & as the flame that consumeth the mountaynes.

  • Jer 5:14
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    14Wherfore thus saieth the LORDE God of hoostes: because ye speake soch wordes, beholde: The wordes that are in thy mouth will I turne to fyre, and make the people to be wod, that it maye consume them.

  • Ezek 15:4-5
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    68%

    4Beholde, it is cast in the fyre to be brent, the fyre consumeth both the endes of it, the myddest is brent to a?shes. Is it mete then for eny worke? No.

    5Seinge then, that it was mete for no worke, beinge whole: moch lesse maye there eny thinge be made of it, when the fyre hath consumed and brent it.

  • Prov 13:3
    67%

    3He that kepeth his mouth, kepeth his life: but who so speaketh vnaduysed, fyndeth harme.

  • Jas 1:26
    67%

    26Yf eny man amonge you seme deuoute, & refrayne not his toge: but deceaue his awne herte, this mannes deuocion is in vayne.

  • Ps 39:3
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    3I helde my tonge, I was domme, I kepte sylence, yee eue from good wordes, but it was payne and grefe to me.

  • Job 41:21
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    21His breth maketh the coales burne, the flame goeth out of his mouth.

  • Prov 26:21
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    21Coles kyndle heate, and wodd ye fyre: euen so doth a braulinge felowe stere vp variaunce.

  • 1 Pet 3:10
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    10For who so listeth to lyue, and wolde fayne se good dayes, Let him refrayne his tonge from euell, and his lippes yt they speake no gyle.

  • Prov 12:18
    67%

    18A slaunderous personne pricketh like a swerde, but a wyse mans tonge is wholsome.

  • Ps 120:3
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    3What rewarde shalbe geuen or done vnto the, thou false tonge?

  • Jas 1:19
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    19Wherfore deare brethren, let euery man be swifte to heare, slowe to speake, and slowe to wrath.

  • 1 Cor 5:6
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    6Youre reioysinge is not good. Knowe ye not that a litle leuen sowereth the whole lompe of dowe.

  • Prov 25:23
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    23The north wynde dryueth awaye the rayne, euen so doth an earnest sober countenauce a backbyters tonge.

  • Rom 3:14
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    14Their mouth is full of cursynge and bytternesse.

  • Ps 50:19
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    19Thou lettest yi mouth speake wickednesse, & thy tonge paynteth disceate.

  • Prov 25:15
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    15With pacience maye a prynce be pacified, & wt a soft tonge maye rigorousnes be broke.

  • Prov 26:18
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    18Like as one shuteth deadly arowes and dartes out of a preuy place, euen so doth a dyssembler with his neghboure,

  • Eccl 10:12
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    12The wordes out of a wyse mans mouth are gracious, but the lippes of a foole wil destroye himself.

  • Ps 52:2
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    2Where as the goodnesse of God endureth yet daylie.

  • Job 15:13
    66%

    13yt thy mynde is so puft vp agaynst God & lettest soch wordes go out of thy mouth?

  • Ps 10:7
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    7He sytteth lurkynge in the gardens, that he maye pryuely murthur the innocent, his eyes are set vpo the poore.

  • Job 22:20
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    20that their increase shal be hewen downe, & their posterite consumed with the fyre.

  • Matt 12:36
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    36But I saye vnto you, that of euery ydell worde that me haue spoken, they shal geue accomptes at ye daye of iudgmet.