James 3:8

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But the tongue no man can tame, an unquiet evil, full of deadly poison.

Cross References

Romans 3:13

Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have dealt deceitfully. The venom of asps is under their lips.

Psalm 140:3

Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth: and a door round about my lips.

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is placed among our members, which defileth the whole body, and inflameth the wheel of our nativity, being set on fire by hell.

Psalm 57:4

The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.

Psalm 59:7

Save me with thy right hand, and hear me.

Psalm 58:4

For behold they have caught my soul: the mighty have rushed in upon me:

Ecclesiastes 10:11

If a serpent bite in silence, he is nothing better that backbiteth secretly.

Deuteronomy 32:33

Their wine is the gall of dragons, and the venom of asps, which is incurable.

Revelation 12:9

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

Proverbs 17:20

He that is of a perverse heart, shall not find good: and he that perverteth his tongue, shall fall into evil.

James 3:7

For every nature of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of the rest, is tamed, and hath been tamed, by the nature of man: