James 3:5

Geneva Bible (1560)

Euen so the tongue is a litle member, and boasteth of great things: beholde, howe great a thing a litle fire kindleth.

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  • Jer 9:3-8 : 3 And they bende their tongues like their bowes for lyes: but they haue no courage for the trueth vpon the earth: for they proceede from euill to worse, and they haue not knowen mee, sayth the Lord. 4 Let euery one take heede of his neighbour, and trust you not in any brother: for euery brother will vse deceite, and euery friend will deale deceitfully, 5 And euery one wil deceiue his friende, and wil not speake the trueth: for they haue taught their tongues to speake lies, and take great paynes to do wickedly. 6 Thine habitation is in the middes of deceiuers: because of their deceit they refuse to know me, sayth the Lord. 7 Therefore thus sayth the Lorde of hostes, Behold, I wil melt them, & trie them: for what should I els do for the daughter of my people? 8 Their tongue is as an arow shot out, and speaketh deceite: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in his heart hee layeth waite for him.
  • Ps 17:10 : 10 They are inclosed in their owne fat, and they haue spoken proudely with their mouth.
  • Ps 52:1-2 : 1 To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid to giue instruction. When Doeg the Edomite came and shewed Saul, and saide to him, Dauid is come to the house of Abimelech. Why boastest thou thy selfe in thy wickednesse, O man of power? the louing kindenesse of God indureth dayly. 2 Thy tongue imagineth mischiefe, and is like a sharpe rasor, that cutteth deceitfully.
  • Ps 73:8-9 : 8 They are licentious, and speake wickedly of their oppression: they talke presumptuously. 9 They set their mouth against heauen, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
  • Prov 12:18 : 18 There is that speaketh wordes like the prickings of a sworde: but the tongue of wise men is health.
  • Prov 15:2 : 2 The tongue of the wise vseth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fooles babbleth out foolishnesse.
  • Prov 18:21 : 21 Death & life are in the power of ye tongue, and they that loue it, shal eate the fruite thereof.
  • Jer 18:18 : 18 Then sayde they, Come, and let vs imagine some deuice against Ieremiah: for the Lawe shal not perish from the Priest, nor counsell from the wise, nor the worde from the Prophet: come, and let vs smite him with the tongue, and let vs not giue heede to any of his words.
  • Ezek 28:2 : 2 Sonne of ma, say vnto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saieth the Lord God, Because thine heart is exalted, & thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God in ye mids of the sea, yet thou art but a man & not God, and though thou didest thinke in thine heart, that thou wast equall with God,
  • Ps 10:3 : 3 For the wicked hath made boast of his owne heartes desire, and the couetous blesseth himselfe: he contemneth the Lord.
  • Ps 12:2-4 : 2 They speake deceitfully euery one with his neighbour, flattering with their lips, and speake with a double heart. 3 The Lorde cut off all flattering lippes, and the tongue that speaketh proude things: 4 Which haue saide, With our tongue will we preuaile: our lippes are our owne: who is Lord ouer vs?
  • Rev 13:5-6 : 5 And there was giuen vnto him a mouth, that spake great things and blasphemies, and power was giuen vnto him, to doe two and fourtie moneths. 6 And he opened his mouth vnto blasphemie against God, to blaspheme his Name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heauen.
  • Jude 1:16 : 16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their owne lustes: Whose mouthes speake proud things, hauing mens persons in admiration, because of aduantage.
  • Dan 3:15 : 15 Now therefore are ye ready when ye heare the sound of the cornet, trumpet, harpe, sackebut, psalterie, and dulcimer, and all instruments of musike, to fall downe, and worship the image, which I haue made? For if ye worship it not, ye shall be cast immediately into the middes of an hote fierie fornace: for who is that God, that can deliuer you out of mine handes?
  • Dan 4:30 : 30 (4:27) And the King spake and sayde, Is not this great Babel, that I haue built 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 in speaking swelling wordes of vanitie, they beguile with wantonnesse through the lusts of the flesh them that were cleane escaped from them which are wrapped in errour,
  • Exod 15:9 : 9 The enemie sayd, I wil pursue, I wil ouertake them, I will deuide the spoyle, my lust shall bee satisfied vpon them, I will drawe my sworde, mine hand shall destroy them.
  • 2 Kgs 19:22-24 : 22 Whome hast thou railed on? And whome hast thou blasphemed? And against whome hast thou exalted thy voyce, and lifted vp thine eyes on hie? euen against the Holie one of Israel. 23 By thy messengers thou hast rayled on the Lorde, and said, By the multitude of my charets I am come vp to the toppe of the mountaines, by the sides of Lebanon, and will cut downe the hie cedars thereof, and the faire firre trees thereof, and I will goe into the lodging of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel. 24 I haue digged, and drunke the waters of others, and with the plant of my feete haue I dried all the floods closed in.
  • Job 21:14-15 : 14 They say also vnto God, Depart fro vs: for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes. 15 Who is the Almightie, that we should serue him? and what profit should we haue, if we should pray vnto him?
  • Job 22:17 : 17 Which sayd vnto God, Depart from vs, & asked what the Almightie could do for them.

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    6 And the tongue is fire, yea, a worlde of wickednesse: so is the tongue set among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature, and it is set on fire of hell.

    7 For the whole nature of beasts, & of birds, and of creeping things, and things of the sea is tamed, and hath bene tamed of the nature of man.

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

    9 Therewith blesse we God euen the Father, and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.

    10 Out of one mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing: my brethren, these things ought not so to be.

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

    3 Beholde, we put bittes into the horses mouthes, that they should obey vs, and we turne about all their bodie.

    4 Behold also the shippes, which though they be so great, and are driuen of fierce windes, yet are they turned about with a very small rudder, whither soeuer the gouernour listeth.

  • Prov 15:4
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    4 A wholesome tongue is as a tree of life: but the frowardnes therof is the breaking of ye minde.

  • Prov 10:19-20
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    19 In many wordes there cannot want iniquitie: but he that refrayneth his lippes, is wise.

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  • Prov 15:1-2
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    1 A soft answere putteth away wrath: but grieuous wordes stirre vp anger.

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  • Prov 21:23
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  • Job 15:5
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    5 For thy mouth declareth thine iniquitie, seeing thou hast chosen ye tongue of the crafty.

  • Prov 10:31
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    3 In the mouth of the foolish is the rod of pride: but the lippes of the wise preserue them.

  • Prov 16:27
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    27 A wicked man diggeth vp euill, and in his lippes is like burning fire.

  • Prov 18:20-21
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    20 With the fruite of a mans mouth shall his belly be satisfied, and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.

    21 Death & life are in the power of ye tongue, and they that loue it, shal eate the fruite thereof.

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  • Ps 12:3-4
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    3 The Lorde cut off all flattering lippes, and the tongue that speaketh proude things:

    4 Which haue saide, With our tongue will we preuaile: our lippes are our owne: who is Lord ouer vs?

  • Isa 9:18
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    18 For wickednesse burneth as a fire: it deuoureth the briers and the thornes and will kindle in the thicke places of the forest: and they shall mount vp like the lifting vp of smoke.

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    27 Can a man take fire in his bosome, and his clothes not be burnt?

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    14 As the fire burneth the forest, and as the flame setteth the mountaines on fire:

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    14 Wherefore thus saith the Lorde God of hostes, Because ye speake such wordes, beholde, I will put my wordes into thy mouth, like a fire, and this people shall be as wood, and it shall deuoure them.

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    4 Behold, it is cast in the fire to be consumed: the fire consumeth both the endes of it, and the middes of it is burnt. Is it meete for any worke?

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    3 Hee that keepeth his mouth, keepeth his life: but he that openeth his lips, destruction shal be to him.

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    26 If any man amog you seeme religious, and refraineth not his tongue, but deceiueth his owne heart, this mans religion is vaine.

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    3 Mine heart was hote within me, and while I was musing, the fire kindeled, and I spake with my tongue, saying,

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    21 (41:12) His breath maketh the coales burne: for a flame goeth out of his mouth.

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    21 As ye cole maketh burning coles, & wood a fire, so the contentious man is apt to kindle strife.

  • 1 Pet 3:10
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    10 For if any man long after life, and to see good dayes, let him refraine his tongue from euill, and his lippes that they speake no guile.

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    18 There is that speaketh wordes like the prickings of a sworde: but the tongue of wise men is health.

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    3 What doeth thy deceitfull tongue bring vnto thee? or what doeth it auaile thee?

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    19 Wherefore my deare brethren, let euery man be swift to heare, slowe to speake, and slowe to wrath.

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

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    23 As the Northwinde driueth away the raine, so doeth an angry countenance the slandering tongue.

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    14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitternesse.

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    19 Thou giuest thy mouth to euill, and with thy tongue thou forgest deceit.

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    15 A Prince is pacified by staying of anger, and a soft tongue breaketh the bones.

  • Prov 26:18
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    18 As he that faineth himselfe mad, casteth fire brands, arrowes, and mortall things,

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    12 The words of ye mouth of a wise man haue grace: but the lippes of a foole deuoure himselfe.

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    2 Thy tongue imagineth mischiefe, and is like a sharpe rasor, that cutteth deceitfully.

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    13 That thou answerest to God at thy pleasure, and bringest such wordes out of thy mouth?

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    7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceite and fraude: vnder his tongue is mischiefe and iniquitie.

  • Job 22:20
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    20 Surely our substance is hid: but the fire hath deuoured the remnant of them.

  • Matt 12:36
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    36 But I say vnto you, that of euery idle word that men shall speake, they shall giue account thereof at the day of iudgement.