James 3:8

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

but no one of men is able to tame the tongue; it is an unrestrainable evil, full of death-bringing poison.

Cross References

Psalm 140:3

They sharpen their tongues like a snake; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.

Psalm 55:21

The butterings of his mouth were smooth, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, but they were as drawn swords.

Psalm 57:4

My soul is among lions; I lie among those blazing, the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Psalm 58:4

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent; like the deaf adder he stops his ear,

Psalm 59:7

Behold, they belch forth with their mouth; swords are in their lips; for they say, Who hears?

Proverbs 17:20

One crooked of heart does not find a good thing, and he who is perverse in his tongue falls into an evil thing.

Ecclesiastes 10:11

If the snake will bite without charming, then there is no advantage to a master of tongue.

Romans 3:13

“Their throat is a tomb being opened;” “they used deceit with their tongues; the poison of asps is under their lips;

Deuteronomy 32:33

Their wine is the venom of serpents, and the cruel venom of asps.

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. So the tongue is set among our members, defiling the whole body, and inflaming the course of nature, and being inflamed by Hell.

James 3:7

For every species of beasts, both indeed of birds, of creeping things, and of sea animals, is tamed, and has been tamed by the human nature;

Revelation 12:9

And the great dragon was cast out, the old serpent, the one being called the devil, even Satan; the one leading astray the whole inhabited earth, was cast into the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.