James 3:5 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁵ 4 But if you have bitter zeal, and there be contentions in your hearts; glory not, and be not liars against the truth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Even so the tongue is a little member, and it can boast of great things. See how much wood or how great a forest a tiny spark can set ablaze!

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire!

Common English Bible

⁵ In the same way, even though the tongue is a small part of the body, it boasts wildly. Think about this: A small flame can set a whole forest on fire.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ So also the tongue certainly is a small part, but it moves great things. Consider that a small fire can set ablaze a great forest.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ Even so the tongue is indeed a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold how small a fire kindleth a great wood.

James 3:5 Cross References

Job 22:17

2 Receive the law of his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.

Psalm 10:3

0 In his net he will bring him down, he will crouch and fall, when he shall have power over the poor.

Psalm 17:10

The Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my deliverer. My God is my helper, and in him will I put my trust. My protector and the horn of my salvation, and my support.

Psalm 39:1

Deliver thou me from all my iniquities : thou hast made me a reproach to the fool.

Exodus 15:9

2 Thou stretchedst forth thy hand, and the earth swallowed them.

Exodus 5:2

The king of Egypt said to them: Why do you Moses and Aaron draw off the people from their works? Get you gone to your burdens.

Proverbs 12:18

5 Grief in the heart of a man shall bring him low, but with a good word he shall be made glad.

Proverbs 15:2

The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord: he that followeth justice is beloved by him.

Proverbs 18:21

Riches make many friends: but from the poor man, even they whom he had, depart.

Proverbs 26:20

7 He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that rolleth a stone, it shall return to him.

Jeremiah 18:18

And thou shalt say: Hear the word of the Lord, O ye kings of Juda, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem: Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold I will bring an affliction upon this place: so that whoever shall hear it, his ears shall tingle:

Ezekiel 28:2

0 Thou shalt die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.

Ezekiel 29:3

1 The foot of man shall not pass through it, neither shall the foot of beasts go through it: nor shall it be inhabited during forty years.

Daniel 3:15

3 But these three men, that is, Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, fell down bound in the midst of the furnace of burning fire.

Daniel 4:30

Baltasar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his nobles: and every one drank according to his age.

James 3:4

3 Who is a wise man, and endued with knowledge among you? Let him shew, by a good conversation, his work in the meekness of wisdom.

2 Peter 2:18

For this they are wilfully ignorant of, that the heavens were before, and the earth out of water, and through water, consisting by the word of God.

Jude 1:16

5 To the only God our Saviour through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory and magnificence, empire and power, before all ages, and now, and for all ages of ages. Amen.