James 3:6

The Scriptures 1998

And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Among our members the tongue is set, the one defiling the entire body, and setting on fire the wheel of life, and it is set on fire by Gehenna.

Cross References

2 Samuel 16:20

And Aḇ

2 Samuel 19:43

And the men of Yisra’ĕ

2 Chronicles 13:17

And Aḇ

Psalm 140:3

They sharpen their tongues like a snake; The poison of cobras is under their lips. Selah.

Psalm 64:3

Who sharpen their tongue like a sword, And aim their arrows, a bitter word,

Proverbs 15:1

A soft answer turns away wrath, But a harsh word stirs up displeasure.

Proverbs 16:27

A man of Beliyaʽ

Proverbs 6:19

A false witness breathing out lies, And one who causes strife among brothers.

Proverbs 7:5

To guard you against the strange woman, Against the foreigner who flatters with her words.

Isaiah 30:27

See, the Name of יהוה  is coming from afar, burning with His wrath, and heavy smoke. His lips shall be filled with rage, and His tongue be as a devouring fire;

Isaiah 50:11

See, all you who light a fire, girding on burning arrows: walk in the light of your fire and in the burning arrows you have lit. From My hand you shall have this: you shall lie down in grief!

Jeremiah 20:10

For I heard many mocking, “Fear on every side!” “Expose,” they say, “yea, let us expose him!” All my friends watched for my stumbling, saying, “He might be lured away, so that we prevail against him, and take our revenge on him.”

Jeremiah 28:16

“Therefore thus said יהוה, ‘See, I am sending you away from the face of the earth. This year you shall die, for you have spoken apostasy against יהוה.’ ”

Leviticus 24:11

And the Yisra’ĕ

Numbers 25:2

and they invited the people to the slaughterings of their mighty ones, and the people ate and bowed down to their mighty ones.

Numbers 31:16

“Look, they are the ones who caused the children of Yisra’ĕ

Matthew 12:24

But when the Pharisees heard it they said, “This one does not cast out demons except by Beʽ

Matthew 5:22

“But I say to you that whoever is wroth with his brother without a cause shall be liable to judgment. And whoever says to his brother, ‘Raka!’ shall be liable to the Sanhedrin. But whoever says, ‘You fool!’ shall be liable to fire of Gehenna.

Mark 7:15

“There is no matter that enters a man from outside which is able to defile him, but it is what comes out of him that defiles the man.

Luke 16:24

“And crying out he said, ‘Father Aḇ

Acts 20:30

“Also from among yourselves men shall arise, speaking distorted teachings, to draw away the taught ones after themselves.

Acts 5:3

But Kĕ

Acts 6:13

And they set up false witnesses who said, “This man does not cease to speak blasphemous words against this set-apart place and the Torah,

Deuteronomy 13:6

“When your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own being, entices you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other mighty ones’– which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers,

Titus 1:11

whose mouths have to be stopped, who upset entire households, teaching what they should not teach, for the sake of filthy gain.

James 2:7

Do they not blaspheme that good Name by which you are called?

James 3:7

For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and creature of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind.

2 Peter 3:3

knowing this first: that mockers shall come in the last days with mocking, walking according to their own lusts,

3 John 1:10

So if I come, I shall call to mind his works which he does, babbling against us with wicked words. And not satisfied with that, he himself does not receive the brothers, and forbids those who wish to, putting them out of the assembly.

Revelation 12:9

And the great dragon was thrown out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who leads all the world astray. He was thrown to the earth, and his messengers were thrown out with him.

Revelation 13:14

And he leads astray those dwelling on the earth because of those signs which he was given to do before the beast, saying to those dwelling on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword, yet lived.

Revelation 18:23

“And the light of a lamp shall not shine in you any more at all. And the voice of bridegroom and bride shall not be heard in you any more at all. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, for by your drug sorcery all the nations were led astray.

Revelation 19:20

And the beast was seized, and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence, by which he led astray those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshipped his image. The two were thrown alive into the lake of fire burning with sulphur.