James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell.
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Cross references
- Psalm 120:2–3 Deliver my soul, O Jehovah, from lying lips, And from a deceitful tongue. What shall be given unto thee, and what shall be done more unto thee, Thou deceitful tongue?
- Proverbs 16:27 A worthless man deviseth mischief; And in his lips there is as a scorching fire.
- Mark 7:15 there is nothing from without the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.