James 3:7

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

For all kinds of animals and birds and reptiles and ocean creatures are being subdued and have been subdued by mankind,

Cross References

Mark 5:4

He had often been bound with ropes and chains but had broken the chains off and torn the ropes to pieces. And no one had enough strength to subdue him.

Acts 10:12

It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, crawling [reptiles] and birds.

James 3:6

And the tongue is [like] a fire [i.e., like that spark]. [For] the tongue, as a part of the body, is [like] the world of evil. It corrupts the entire life [of a person] and inflames the course of nature itself [i.e., it affects a person throughout his whole earthly existence], and is ignited by hell itself [i.e., the evil produced by the fiery tongue has hell as its source and destiny].

James 3:8

but no one can subdue the tongue. It is an uncontrollable [source of] evil and full of deadly poison.