James 3:7 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁷ For all kinds of animals and birds and reptiles and ocean creatures are being subdued and have been subdued by mankind,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea animal, can be tamed and has been tamed by human genius (nature).

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ For every kind of beasts and birds, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind:

Common English Bible

⁷ People can tame and already have tamed every kind of animal, bird, reptile, and fish.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ For the nature of all beasts and birds and serpents and others is ruled over, and has been ruled over, by human nature.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ For every nature of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of the rest, is tamed, and hath been tamed, by the nature of man:

James 3:7 Cross References

Mark 5:4

He had often been bound with ropes and chains but had broken the chains off and torn the ropes to pieces. And no one had enough strength to subdue him.

Acts 10:12

It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, crawling [reptiles] and birds.

James 3:6

And the tongue is [like] a fire [i.e., like that spark]. [For] the tongue, as a part of the body, is [like] the world of evil. It corrupts the entire life [of a person] and inflames the course of nature itself [i.e., it affects a person throughout his whole earthly existence], and is ignited by hell itself [i.e., the evil produced by the fiery tongue has hell as its source and destiny].

James 3:8

but no one can subdue the tongue. It is an uncontrollable [source of] evil and full of deadly poison.