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James 3:5

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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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James 3:5 in other translations

So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

James 3:5 · World English Bible

James 3:5 in context

  1. 3Now if we put the horses’ bridles into their mouths that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also.
  2. 4Behold, the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by rough winds, are yet turned about by a very small rudder, whither the impulse of the steersman willeth.
  3. 5So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire!
  4. 6And 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.
  5. 7For every kind of beasts and birds, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind: