James 3:8

Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

but the tongue can no man tame; it is a restless evil, it is full of deadly poison.

Cross References

Psalm 140:3

They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; Adders' poison is under their lips. Selah

Psalm 55:21

His mouth was smooth as butter, But his heart was war: His words were softer than oil, Yet were they drawn swords.

Psalm 57:4

My soul is among lions; I lie 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 58:4

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

Psalm 59:7

Behold, they belch out with their mouth; Swords are in their lips: For who, say they, doth hear?

Proverbs 17:20

He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: And he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.

Ecclesiastes 10:11

If the serpent bite before it be charmed, then is there no advantage in the charmer.

Romans 3:13

Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:

Deuteronomy 32:33

Their wine is the poison of dragons, And the cruel venom of asps.

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell.

James 3:7

For every kind of beasts and birds, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind:

Revelation 12:9

And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.