James 3:8

New Messianic Version Bible

But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

Cross References

Romans 3:13

Their throat [is] an open sepulchre; with their tongues (foreign languages) they have used deceit; the poison of asps [is] under their lips:

Psalm 140:3

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison [is] under their lips. Selah [stop and diligently consider what was just said].

James 3:6

And the tongue [is] a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

Psalm 55:21

[The words] of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war [was] in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet [were] they drawn swords.

Psalm 57:4

My soul [is] among lions: [and] I lie [even among] them that are set on fire, [even] the sons of men, whose teeth [are] spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Psalm 59:7

Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords [are] in their lips: for who, [say they], does hear?

Psalm 58:4

Their poison [is] like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder [that] stops her ear;

Ecclesiastes 10:11

Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.

Deuteronomy 32:33

Their wine [is] the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

Revelation 12:9

And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan [the adversary], which deceives the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Proverbs 17:20

He that has a perverse (twisted) [habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition] heart finds no good: and he that has a perverse tongue falls into mischief.

James 3:7

For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed of mankind: