James 3:8 - English Majority Text Version 2009

⁸ But no man can tame the tongue. [It] is an unrestrainable evil, full of deadly poison.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ But the human tongue can be tamed by no man. It is a restless (undisciplined, irreconcilable) evil, full of deadly poison.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ but the tongue can no man tame; it is a restless evil, it is full of deadly poison.

Common English Bible

⁸ No one can tame the tongue, though. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ But no man is able to rule over the tongue, a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ But the tongue no man can tame, an unquiet evil, full of deadly poison.

James 3:8 Cross References

Romans 3:13

"Their throat is an opened grave; with their tongues they deceived"; "[the ]poison of asps is under their lips";

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. Thus the tongue is set among our members, as that which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.

James 3:7

For every kind of both beasts and birds, of both reptiles and sea creatures, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind.

Revelation 12:9

And the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.