James 3:6

New American Bible - revised edition

The tongue is also a fire. It exists among our members as a world of malice, defiling the whole body and setting the entire course of our lives on fire, itself set on fire by Gehenna.

Cross References

2 Samuel 16:20

Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, “Offer your counsel on what we should do.”

2 Samuel 19:43

All the Judahites replied to the men of Israel: “Because the king is our relative. Why are you angry over this? Have we had anything to eat at the king’s expense? Or have portions from his table been given to us?”

2 Chronicles 13:17

Abijah and his people inflicted a severe defeat upon them; five hundred thousand picked men of Israel fell slain.

Psalm 140:3

From those who plan evil in their hearts, who stir up conflicts every day,

Psalm 64:3

Hide me from the malicious crowd, the mob of evildoers.

Proverbs 15:1

A mild answer turns back wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Proverbs 16:27

Scoundrels are a furnace of evil, and their lips are like a scorching fire.

Proverbs 6:19

The false witness who utters lies, and the one who sows discord among kindred.

Proverbs 7:5

That they may keep you from a stranger, from the foreign woman with her smooth words.

Isaiah 30:27

See, the name of the Lord is coming from afar, burning with anger, heavy with threat, His lips filled with fury, tongue like a consuming fire,

Isaiah 50:11

All you who kindle flames and set flares alight, Walk by the light of your own fire and by the flares you have burnt! This is your fate from my hand: you shall lie down in a place of torment.

Jeremiah 20:10

Yes, I hear the whisperings of many: “Terror on every side! Denounce! let us denounce him!” All those who were my friends are on the watch for any misstep of mine. “Perhaps he can be tricked; then we will prevail, and take our revenge on him.”

Jeremiah 28:16

For this, says the Lord, I am sending you from the face of the earth; this very year you shall die, because you have preached rebellion against the Lord.

Leviticus 24:11

The son of the Israelite woman uttered the Lord’s name in a curse and blasphemed. So he was brought to Moses—now his mother’s name was Shelomith, daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan—

Numbers 25:2

These then invited the people to the sacrifices of their god, and the people ate of the sacrifices and bowed down to their god.

Numbers 31:16

“These are the very ones who on Balaam’s advice were behind the Israelites’ unfaithfulness to the Lord in the affair at Peor, so that plague struck the Lord’s community.

Matthew 12:24

But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, “This man drives out demons only by the power of Beelzebul, the prince of demons.”

Matthew 5:22

But I say to you, whoever is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment, and whoever says to his brother, ‘Raqa,’ will be answerable to the Sanhedrin, and whoever says, ‘You fool,’ will be liable to fiery Gehenna.

Mark 7:15

Nothing that enters one from outside can defile that person; but the things that come out from within are what defile.” [

Luke 16:24

And he cried out, ‘Father Abraham, have pity on me. Send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am suffering torment in these flames.’

Acts 20:30

And from your own group, men will come forward perverting the truth to draw the disciples away after them.

Acts 5:3

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart so that you lied to the holy Spirit and retained part of the price of the land?

Acts 6:13

They presented false witnesses who testified, “This man never stops saying things against [this] holy place and the law.

Deuteronomy 13:6

But that prophet or that dreamer shall be put to death, because, in order to lead you astray from the way which the Lord, your God, has commanded you to take, the prophet or dreamer has spoken apostasy against the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst.

Titus 1:11

It is imperative to silence them, as they are upsetting whole families by teaching for sordid gain what they should not.

James 2:7

Is it not they who blaspheme the noble name that was invoked over you?

James 3:7

For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by the human species,

2 Peter 3:3

Know this first of all, that in the last days scoffers will come [to] scoff, living according to their own desires

3 John 1:10

Therefore, if I come, I will draw attention to what he is doing, spreading evil nonsense about us. And not content with that, he will not receive the brothers, hindering those who wish to do so and expelling them from the church.

Revelation 12:9

The huge dragon, the ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, who deceived the whole world, was thrown down to earth, and its angels were thrown down with it.

Revelation 13:14

It deceived the inhabitants of the earth with the signs it was allowed to perform in the sight of the first beast, telling them to make an image for the beast who had been wounded by the sword and revived.

Revelation 18:23

No light from a lamp will ever be seen in you again. No voices of bride and groom will ever be heard in you again. Because your merchants were the great ones of the world, all nations were led astray by your magic potion.

Revelation 19:20

The beast was caught and with it the false prophet who had performed in its sight the signs by which he led astray those who had accepted the mark of the beast and those who had worshiped its image. The two were thrown alive into the fiery pool burning with sulfur.