James 3:5

Catholic Public Domain Version

So also the tongue certainly is a small part, but it moves great things. Consider that a small fire can set ablaze a great forest.

Cross References

Job 22:17

They said to God, "Withdraw from us," and they treated the Almighty as if he could do nothing,

Psalm 10:3

For behold, the sinners have bent their bow. They have prepared their arrows in the quiver, so as to shoot arrows in the dark at the upright of heart.

Psalm 17:10

He bent the heavens, and they descended. And darkness was under his feet.

Psalm 39:1

Unto the end. A Psalm of David himself.

Exodus 15:9

The enemy said: 'I will pursue and overtake them. I will divide the spoils. My soul will be filled. I will unsheathe my sword. My hand will put them to death.'

Exodus 5:2

But he responded: "Who is the Lord, that I should listen to his voice and release Israel? I do not know the Lord, and I will not release Israel."

Proverbs 12:18

He who makes promises is also jabbed, as if with a sword, in conscience. But the tongue of the wise is reasonable.

Proverbs 15:2

The tongue of the wise adorns knowledge. But the mouth of the senseless gushes with foolishness.

Proverbs 18:21

Death and life are in the power of the tongue. Whoever values it shall eat from its fruits.

Proverbs 26:20

When the wood fails, the fire will be extinguished. And when the gossiper is taken away, conflicts will be quelled.

Jeremiah 18:18

And they said: "Come, and let us devise a plan against Jeremiah. For the law will not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor a sermon from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us pay no attention to any of his words."

Ezekiel 28:2

"Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre: Thus says the Lord God: Because your heart has been exalted, and you have said, 'I am God, and I sit in the chair of God, in the heart of the sea,' though you are a man, and not God, and because you have presented your heart as if it were the heart of God:

Ezekiel 29:3

Speak, and you shall say: Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, you great dragon, who rests in the midst of your rivers. And you say: 'Mine is the river, and I have made myself.'

Daniel 3:15

Therefore, if you are prepared now, whenever you hear the sound of the trumpet, pipe, lute, harp and psaltery, and of the symphony and every kind of music, prostrate yourselves and adore the statue which I have made. But if you will not adore, in the same hour you will be cast into the furnace of burning fire. And who is the God that will rescue you from my hand?"

Daniel 4:30

The same hour, the sentence was fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar, and he was driven away from among men, and he ate hay like an ox, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until his hair increased like the feathers of eagles, and his nails like those of birds.

James 3:4

Consider also the ships, which, though they are great and may be driven by strong winds, yet they are turned around with a small rudder, to be directed to wherever the strength of the pilot might will.

2 Peter 2:18

For, speaking with the arrogance of vanity, they lure, by the desires of fleshly pleasures, those who are fleeing to some extent, who are being turned from error,

Jude 1:16

These ones are complaining murmurers, walking according to their own desires. And their mouth is speaking arrogance, admiring persons for the sake of gain.