James 3:6 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁶ 5 For this is not wisdom, descending from above: but earthly, sensual, devilish.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ And the tongue is a fire. [The tongue is a] world of wickedness set among our members, contaminating and depraving the whole body and setting on fire the wheel of birth (the cycle of man's nature), being itself ignited by hell (Gehenna).

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

⁶ The tongue is a small flame of fire, a world of evil at work in us. It contaminates our entire lives. Because of it, the circle of life is set on fire. The tongue itself is set on fire by the flames of hell.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ And so the tongue is like a fire, comprising all iniquity. The tongue, stationed in the midst of our body, can defile the entire body and inflame the wheel of our nativity, setting a fire from Hell.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is placed among our members, which defileth the whole body, and inflameth the wheel of our nativity, being set on fire by hell.

James 3:6 Cross References

2 Samuel 16:20

And coming upon him (for he is now weary, and weak handed) I will defeat him: and when all the people is put to flight that is with him, I will kill the king who will be left alone.

2 Samuel 19:43

So Amasa went to assemble the men of Juda, but he tarried beyond the set time which the king had appointed him.

2 Chronicles 13:17

2 And the rest of the acts of Abia, and of his ways and works, are written diligently in the book of Addo the prophet.

Psalm 140:3

0 Burning coals shall fall upon them; thou wilt cast them down into the fire: in miseries they shall not be able to stand.

Psalm 64:3

0 The just shall rejoice in the Lord, and shall hope in him: and all the upright in heart shall be praised.

Proverbs 15:1

The victims of the wicked are abominable to the Lord: the vows of the just are acceptable.

Proverbs 16:27

Better is a dry morsel with joy, than a house full of victims with strife.

Proverbs 6:19

6 For the price of a harlot is scarce one loaf: but the woman catcheth the precious soul of a man.

Proverbs 7:5

2 Now abroad, now in the streets, now lying in wait near the corners.

Isaiah 30:27

But he that is the wise one hath brought evil, and hath not removed his words: and he will rise up against the house of the wicked, and against the aid of them that work iniquity.

Isaiah 50:11

For the worm shall eat them up as a garment: and the moth shall consume them as wool: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my justice from generation to generation,

Jeremiah 20:10

8 Why came I out of the womb, to see labour and sorrow, and that my days should be spent in confusion?

Jeremiah 28:16

And seek the peace of the city, to which I have caused you to be carried away captives; and pray to the Lord for it: for in the peace thereof shall be your peace.

Leviticus 24:11

6 And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, dying let him die: all the multitude shall stone him, whether he be a native or a stranger. He that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, dying let him die.

Numbers 25:2

And when Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest saw it, he rose up from the midst; of the multitude, and taking a dagger,

Numbers 31:16

1 Eleazar also the priest spoke to the men of the army, that had fought, in this manner: This is the ordinance of the law, which the Lord hath commanded Moses:

Matthew 12:24

2 And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but he that shall speak against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, nor in the world to come.

Matthew 5:22

0 And if thy right hand scandalize thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is expedient for thee that one of thy members should perish, rather than that thy whole body be cast into hell.

Mark 7:15

3 All these evil things come from within, and defile a man.

Luke 16:24

AND he said to his disciples: It is impossible that scandals should not come: but woe to him through whom they come.

Acts 20:30

8 Being grieved most of all for the word which he had said, that they should see his face no more. And they brought him on his way to the ship.

Acts 5:3

1 And there came great fear upon the whole church, and upon all that heard these things.

Acts 6:13

And God said to him: That his seed should sojourn in a strange country, and that they should bring them under bondage, and treat them evil four hundred years.

Deuteronomy 13:6

1 That all Israel hearing may fear, and may do no more any thing like this.

Titus 1:11

That they may teach the young women to be wise, to love their husbands, to love their children,

James 2:7

6 And one of you say to them: Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; yet give them not those things that are necessary for the body, what shall it profit?

James 3:7

6 For where envying and contention is, there is inconstancy, and every evil work.

2 Peter 3:3

2 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of the Lord, by which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with the burning heat?

3 John 1:10

I will therefore admonish you, though ye once knew all things, that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, did afterwards destroy them that believed not:

Revelation 12:9

And he stood upon the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten diadems, and upon his heads names of blasphemy.

Revelation 13:14

And in their mouth there was found no lie; for they are without spot before the throne of God.

Revelation 18:23

And it is granted to her that she should clothe herself with fine linen, glittering and white. For the fine linen are the justifications of saints.

Revelation 19:20

And they came upon the breadth of the earth, and encompassed the camp of the saints, and the beloved city.