James 3:5
So also the tongue is a little body-part, and boasts greatly. Behold a little fire, how much wood it kindles.
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Exodus 5:2And Pharaoh said, Who is LORD, that I should hearken to his voice to let Israel go? I do not know LORD, and moreover I will not let Israel go.
2 Kings 19:22Whom have thou defied and blasphemed? And against whom have thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high? [Even] against the Holy One of Israel.
Job 22:17who said to God, Depart from us, and, What can the Almighty do for us?
Psalms 12:2They speak falsehood everyone with his neighbor. With flattering lip, and with a double heart, they speak.
Psalms 52:1Why boast thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? The loving kindness of God [is] continual.
Proverbs 12:18There is he who speaks rashly like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise is health.
Matthew Henry on James 3:2-13
Government of the Tongue. ( a. d. 61.) 1 My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. 2 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. 3 Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body. 4 Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm,… Read the whole commentary →