James 3:6

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The tongue is also a fire. It’s like an evil world of its own, right inside our bodies. It corrupts the entire body, and it sets a person’s whole life on fire, from start to finish. And the tongue itself is set on fire by hell.

Cross References

Mark 7:15

Nothing that’s outside of a person can make them unclean by going into them. It’s what comes out of a person that makes them unclean.”

Luke 16:24

So the rich man called out, ‘Father Abraham, have pity on me! Send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I’m in terrible pain in this fire.’

3 John 1:10

So when I come, I’ll show everyone what he’s doing. He’s saying malicious things about us that aren’t true. And as if that weren’t bad enough, he’s also refusing to welcome other believers, and he’s keeping others from doing so. In fact, if anyone does welcome them, he’s throwing them out of the church.

James 2:7

Aren’t they the ones who say insulting things about the worthy name of Jesus? Remember, you belong to him.

Acts 6:13

They found witnesses who were willing to lie about him. The witnesses said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy temple and against the Law of Moses.

Acts 5:3

Then Peter said, “Ananias, how has Satan so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit? You’ve kept some of the money you received for your land.

Matthew 12:24

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

Matthew 5:22

But I tell you that anyone who loses their temper with a brother or sister will answer for it in court. Anyone who speaks scornfully to a brother or sister will face the council of elders. And anyone who dismisses someone as worthless will be in danger of the fire in hell.

Revelation 19:20

But the beast was captured, along with the false prophet who’d done signs for the beast. With those signs the false prophet had deceived those who’d received the mark of the beast and worshiped its statue. The beast and the false prophet were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

Revelation 18:23

The light of a lamp will never shine in you again. The voices of brides and grooms will never be heard in you again. Your traders were among the world’s most powerful people, and by your magic spell, all the nations were led astray.

Revelation 13:14

The first beast had given the second beast the power to perform these signs, and by these signs, the second beast tricked those who live on the earth. The second beast ordered people to set up a statue to honor the first beast. The first beast was the one who’d been wounded by a sword but had survived.

Revelation 12:9

The great dragon was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. That dragon is the old serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray.

2 Peter 3:3

Above all, you must understand that in the last days people will laugh at the truth and follow their own wrong desires.

Titus 1:11

Those people need to be stopped. They’re disrupting entire families by teaching things they shouldn’t, and they’re doing it just to try to cheat people.

Acts 20:30

Even some of your own people will rise up and twist the truth to get disciples to follow them.

James 3:7

People have tamed all kinds of wild animals, birds, reptiles, and sea creatures, and they still tame them.