James 3:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ If we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we guide their whole bodies.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ If we set bits in the horses' mouths to make them obey us, we can turn their whole bodies about.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Now if we put the horses’ bridles into their mouths that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also.

Common English Bible

³ When we bridle horses and put bits in their mouths to lead them wherever we want, we can control their whole bodies.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ For so we put bridles into the mouths of horses, in order to submit them to our will, and so we turn their whole body around.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ For if we put bits into the mouths of horses, that they may obey us, and we turn about their whole body.

James 3:3 Cross References

2 Kings 19:28

Because you have raged against me and your arrogance has come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth; I will turn you back on the way by which you came.

Job 41:13

Who can strip off its outer garment? Who can penetrate its double coat of mail?

Psalm 32:9

Do not be like a horse or a mule, without understanding, whose temper must be curbed with bit and bridle, else it will not stay near you.

Psalm 39:1

I said, “I will guard my ways that I may not sin with my tongue; I will keep a muzzle on my mouth as long as the wicked are in my presence.”

Isaiah 37:29

Because you have raged against me and your arrogance has come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth; I will turn you back on the way by which you came.

James 1:26

If any think they are religious and do not bridle their tongues but deceive their hearts, their religion is worthless.

James 3:4

Or look at ships: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, yet they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs.