James 3:5
So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire!
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Cross references
- Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue; And they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
- Proverbs 12:18 There is that speaketh rashly like the piercings of a sword; But the tongue of the wise is health.
- Jeremiah 9:3–5 And they bend their tongue, as it were their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah. Take ye heed every one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders. And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.