James 3:8

Catholic Public Domain Version

But no man is able to rule over the tongue, a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

Cross References

Psalm 140:3

O Lord, station a guard over my mouth and a door enclosing my lips.

Psalm 57:4

Sinners have become foreigners from the womb; they have gone astray from conception. They have been speaking falsehoods.

Psalm 58:4

For behold, they have seized my soul. The strong have rushed upon me.

Psalm 59:7

Save me with your right hand, and hear me.

Proverbs 17:20

Whoever is of a perverse heart shall not find good. And whoever turns his tongue shall fall into evil.

Ecclesiastes 10:11

Whoever slanders in secret is nothing less than a snake that bites silently.

Romans 3:13

Their throat is an open sepulcher. With their tongues, they have been acting deceitfully. The venom of asps is under their lips.

Deuteronomy 32:33

Their wine is the gall of snakes, and it is the incurable venom of asps.

James 3:6

And so the tongue is like a fire, comprising all iniquity. The tongue, stationed in the midst of our body, can defile the entire body and inflame the wheel of our nativity, setting a fire from Hell.

James 3:7

For the nature of all beasts and birds and serpents and others is ruled over, and has been ruled over, by human nature.

Revelation 12:9

And he was thrown out, that great dragon, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, who seduces the whole world. And he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.