James 3:6

James Moffatt - New Testament

And the tongue is a fire, the tongue proves a very world of mischief among our members, staining the whole of the body and setting fire to the round circle of existence with a flame fed by hell.

Cross References

Mark 7:15

nothing outside a man can defile him by entering him; it is what comes from him that defiles him.

Luke 16:24

so he called out, 'Father Abraham, take pity on me, send Lazarus to dip his fingertip in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in these flames.'

3 John 1:10

So when I come, I shall bring up what he is doing, babbling against me with wicked words — and, not satisfied with words, he refuses to welcome the brothers, checks those who want to welcome them, and excommunicates them from the church.

James 2:7

Is it not they who scoff at the noble Name you bear?

Acts 6:13

They also brought forward false witnesses to say, "This fellow is never done talking against this holy Place and the Law!

Acts 5:3

"Ananias," said Peter, "why has Satan filled your heart and made you cheat the holy Spirit by appropriating some of the money paid for the land?

Matthew 12:24

But when the Pharisees heard of it they said, "This fellow only casts out daemons by Beelzebul the prince of daemons."

Matthew 5:22

whoever maligns his brother must come before the San hedrin, whoever curses his brother must go to the fire of Gehenna.' But I tell you, whoever is angry with his brother [without cause] will be sentenced by God.

Revelation 19:20

But the Beast was seized, together with the false Prophet who had performed in his presence the miracles by means of which he seduced those who received the mark of the Beast and worshipped his statue; both of them were flung alive into the lake of fire that blazes with brimstone,

Revelation 18:23

For the magnates of earth were thy traders; all nations were seduced by thy magic spells.

Revelation 13:14

and by dint of the miracles he is allowed to perform in presence of the Beast, he seduces the dwellers on earth; he bids the dwellers on earth erect a statue to the Beast who lived after being wounded by the sword,

Revelation 12:9

So the huge dragon was thrown down — that old serpent called the Devil and Satan, the seducer of the whole world — thrown down to the earth, and his angels thrown down along with him.

2 Peter 3:3

To begin with, you know that mockers will come with their mockeries in the last days, men who go by their own passions,

Titus 1:11

they must be silenced, for they are undermining whole families by teaching objectionable doctrine for the base end of making money.

Acts 20:30

and men of your own number will arise with perversions of the truth to draw the disciples after them.

James 3:7

For while every kind of beast and bird, of creeping animals and creatures marine, is tameable and has been tamed by mankind,