James 3:5

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

Even so the tonge is a lyttell member and bosteth great thinges. Beholde how gret a thinge a lyttell fyre kyndleth

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Referenced Verses

  • Rev 13:5-6 : 5 And ther was a mouth geve vnto him that spake great thinges and blasphemies and power was geve vnto him to do xlii. Monethes 6 And he opened his mowth vnto blasphemy agaynst God to blaspheme hys name and his tabernacle and them that dwell in heven.
  • Jude 1:16 : 16 These are murmurers complayners walkynge after their awne lustes whose mouthes speake proude thynges. They have men in greate reverence be cause of a vauntage.
  • Exod 15:9 : 9 The enymye sayde, I will folowe and ouertake the ad will deuyde the spoyle: I will satysfie my lust apon the: I will drawe my swerde and myne hande shall destroye them.
  • 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For when they have spoke the swellinge wordes of vanytie they begyle wt wantanes thorowe yt lustes of the flesshe them that were clene escaped: but now are wrapped in errours.

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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 members that it defileth the whole body and setteth a fyre all that we have of nature and is it selfe set a fyre even of hell.

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

    8But the tonge can no man tame. Yt is an vntuely evyll full of deedly poyson.

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

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

  • Jas 3:2-4
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    77%

    2for in many thinges we synne all. Yf a man synne not in worde the same is a parfecte ma and able to tame all the body.

    3Beholde we put bittes into ye horses mouthes that they shuld obeye vs and we turne aboute all the body.

    4Beholde also the shyppes which though they be so gret and are dryven of fearce windes yet are they turned about with a very smale helme whither soever the violence of the governer wyll.

  • Gal 5:9
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    9A lytell leven doth leven the whole lompe of dowe.

  • Jas 1:26
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    26Yf eny man amonge you seme devoute and refrayne not his tonge: but deceave his awne herte this mannes devocion is in vayne

  • 1 Pet 3:10
    67%

    10If eny ma longe after life and loveth to se good dayes let him refrayne his tonge fro evyll and his lippes that they speake not gyle.

  • Jas 1:19
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    19Wherfore deare brethren let every man be swyfte 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 lytle leve sowreth the whole lompe of dowe.

  • Rom 3:14
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    14Whose mouthes are full of coursynge and bitternes.

  • Matt 12:36
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    36But I say vnto you that of every ydell worde that men shall have spoken: they shall geve acountes at the daye of iudgement.