James 3:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

but no one can tame the tongue—a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

Cross References

Psalm 140:3

They make their tongue sharp as a snake’s, and under their lips is the venom of vipers. Selah

Psalm 55:21

with speech smoother than butter but with a heart set on war, with words that were softer than oil but in fact were drawn swords.

Psalm 57:4

I lie down among lions that greedily devour human prey; their teeth are spears and arrows, their tongues sharp swords.

Psalm 58:4

They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear,

Psalm 59:7

There they are, bellowing with their mouths, with sharp words on their lips, for “Who,” they think, “will hear us?”

Proverbs 17:20

The crooked of mind do not prosper, and the perverse of tongue fall into calamity.

Ecclesiastes 10:11

If the snake bites before it is charmed, there is no advantage in a charmer.

Romans 3:13

“Their throats are opened graves; they use their tongues to deceive.” “The venom of vipers is under their lips.”

Deuteronomy 32:33

their wine is the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps.

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is placed among our members as a world of iniquity; it stains the whole body, sets on fire the cycle of life, and is itself set on fire by hell.

James 3:7

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

Revelation 12:9

The great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.