James 3:8 - The Scriptures 1998

⁸ But no man is able to tame the tongue. It is unruly, evil, filled with 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.

James 3:8 Cross References

Psalm 140:3

They sharpen their tongues like a snake; The poison of cobras is under their lips. Selah.

Psalm 55:21

His mouth was smoother than curds, Yet in his heart is fighting; His words were softer than oil, But they are drawn swords.

Psalm 57:4

My being is in the midst of lions; I lie among those who breathe fire, Whose teeth are spears and arrows, And their tongue is a sharp sword.

Psalm 58:4

Their poison is like the poison of a snake; Like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

Psalm 59:7

See, they belch out with their mouth, Swords are in their lips, For who is listening?

Proverbs 17:20

He who has a crooked heart finds no good, And he who has a perverse tongue falls into evil.

Ecclesiastes 10:11

If the snake bites without enchantment, then ‘the master of the tongue’ is no better!

Romans 3:13

“Their throat is an open tomb, with their tongues they have deceived,” “The poison of adders is under their lips,”

Deuteronomy 32:33

“Their wine is the poison of serpents, And the fierce venom of cobras.

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Among our members the tongue is set, the one defiling the entire body, and setting on fire the wheel of life, and it is set on fire by Gehenna.

James 3:7

For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and creature of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind.

Revelation 12:9

And the great dragon was thrown out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who leads all the world astray. He was thrown to the earth, and his messengers were thrown out with him.