James 3:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ For every species of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by the human species,

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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

for he had often been restrained with shackles and chains, but the chains he wrenched apart, and the shackles he broke in pieces, and no one had the strength to subdue him.

Acts 10:12

In it were all kinds of four-footed creatures and reptiles and birds of the air.

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is placed among our members as a world of iniquity; it stains the whole body, sets on fire the cycle of life, and is itself set on fire by hell.

James 3:8

but no one can tame the tongue—a restless evil, full of deadly poison.