James 3:8

American Standard Version 2015

but the tongue can no man tame; {\i it is} a restless evil, {\i it is} full of deadly poison.

Cross References

Romans 3:13

{\b Their throat is an open sepulchre;\par\tab With their tongues they have used deceit:\par\tab The poison of asps is under their lips:}

Psalm 140:3

They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent;\par\tab Adders' poison is under their lips. {\i Selah

James 3:6

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.

Psalm 55:21

His mouth was smooth as butter,\par\tab But his heart was war:\par\tab His words were softer than oil,\par\tab Yet were they drawn swords.

Psalm 57:4

My soul is among lions;\par\tab I lie among them that are set on fire,\par\tab Even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows,\par\tab And their tongue a sharp sword.

Psalm 59:7

Behold, they belch out with their mouth;\par\tab Swords are in their lips:\par\tab For who, {\i say they}, doth hear?

Psalm 58:4

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent:\par\tab {\i They are} like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear,

Ecclesiastes 10:11

If the serpent bite before it is charmed, then is there no advantage in the charmer.\par

Deuteronomy 32:33

Their wine is the poison of serpents, And the cruel venom of asps.

Revelation 12:9

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

Proverbs 17:20

He that hath a wayward heart findeth no good;\par\tab And he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.

James 3:7

For every kind of beasts and birds, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind: