James 3:5

New American Bible - revised edition

In the same way the tongue is a small member and yet has great pretensions. Consider how small a fire can set a huge forest ablaze.

Cross References

Job 22:17

They said to God, “Let us alone!” and, “What can the Almighty do to us?”

Psalm 10:3

The wicked even boast of their greed; these robbers curse and scorn the Lord.

Psalm 17:10

they close their hearts, they fill their mouths with proud roaring.

Psalm 39:1

For the leader, for Jeduthun. A psalm of David.

Exodus 15:9

The enemy boasted, “I will pursue and overtake them; I will divide the spoils and have my fill of them; I will draw my sword; my hand will despoil them!”

Exodus 5:2

Pharaoh answered, “Who is the Lord, that I should obey him and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and I will not let Israel go.”

Proverbs 12:18

The babble of some people is like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise is healing.

Proverbs 15:2

The tongue of the wise pours out knowledge, but the mouth of fools spews folly.

Proverbs 18:21

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who choose one shall eat its fruit.

Proverbs 26:20

Without wood the fire dies out; without a talebearer strife subsides.

Jeremiah 18:18

“Come,” they said, “let us devise a plot against Jeremiah, for instruction will not perish from the priests, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophets. Come, let us destroy him by his own tongue. Let us pay careful attention to his every word.”

Ezekiel 28:2

Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre: Thus says the Lord God: Because you are haughty of heart, you say, “I am a god! I sit on a god’s throne in the heart of the sea!” But you are a man, not a god; yet you pretend you are a god at heart!

Ezekiel 29:3

Say to him: Thus says the Lord God: Pay attention! I am against you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, Great dragon crouching in the midst of the Nile, Who says, “The Nile belongs to me; I made it myself!”

Daniel 3:15

Now, if you are ready to fall down and worship the statue I made, whenever you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, zither, dulcimer, harp, double-flute, and all the other musical instruments, then all will be well; if not, you shall be instantly cast into the white-hot furnace; and who is the God who can deliver you out of my hands?”

Daniel 4:30

At once this was fulfilled. Nebuchadnezzar was cast out from human society, he ate grass like an ox, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven, until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle, and his nails like the claws of a bird.

James 3:4

It is the same with ships: even though they are so large and driven by fierce winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot’s inclination wishes.

2 Peter 2:18

For, talking empty bombast, they seduce with licentious desires of the flesh those who have barely escaped from people who live in error.

Jude 1:16

These people are complainers, disgruntled ones who live by their desires; their mouths utter bombast as they fawn over people to gain advantage. Exhortations.