James 3:5

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

So also the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how little a fire kindles how large a forest!

Cross References

Proverbs 18:21

Death and life are in the hand of the tongue, and those who love it shall eat its fruit.

Proverbs 12:18

There is a rash speaking like thrusts of a sword, but the tongue of the wise ones is healing.

Proverbs 15:2

The tongue of the wise makes glad knowledge, but the mouth of fools pours out foolishness.

Psalm 17:10

They are enclosed in their own fat; their mouth speaks proudly;

Jude 1:16

These are murmurers, complainers, walking according to their lusts, and their mouth speaks over swollen words, admiring faces for the sake of gain.

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said, Come and let us plot schemes against Jeremiah. For the Law shall not perish from the priest, and not counsel from the wise, and not word from the prophet. Come and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not attend to any of his words.

Psalm 10:3

For the wicked one boasts of his soul’s desire, and he has blessed the covetous; scorning Jehovah.

Ezekiel 28:2

Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, So says the Lord Jehovah, Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas; yet you are a man, and not God, though you give your heart as the heart of gods.

2 Peter 2:18

For speaking great swollen-over words of vanity, by the lusts of the flesh, by unbridled lusts, they allure the ones indeed escaping, the ones walking in error,

Daniel 4:30

The king answered and said, Is this not great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom, by the might of my power, and for the honor of my majesty?

Job 22:17

the ones saying to God, Depart from us; and, What can the Almighty do to them?

Exodus 15:9

The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my soul shall be filled with them; I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.

Daniel 3:15

Now if you are ready, at the time you hear the sound of the horn, the pipe, zither, the lyre, harp, and bagpipe, and all kinds of music, fall down and do homage to the image which I have made. But if you do not do homage, in that moment you shall be thrown into the middle of a burning furnace of fire. And who is that god who shall deliver you out of my hand?

Ezekiel 29:3

Speak and say, So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, great monster who lies in the midst of his rivers, who has said, My river is mine, and I have made it.

Exodus 5:2

And Pharaoh said, Who is Jehovah that I should listen to His voice to send away Israel? I do not know Jehovah, and I also will not send Israel away.

Psalm 39:1

To the chief musician, to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, I will keep my ways from sinning with my tongue; I will keep my mouth with a muzzle while the wicked one is before me.

Proverbs 26:20

The fire goes out where there is no wood, so the strife becomes quiet. where there is no slanderer.

James 3:4

Behold, the ships also, being so great, and being driven by rough winds, they are directed by a very small rudder, where the impulse of the one steering purposes.