James 3:7

Weymouth NT

For brute nature under all its forms –beasts and birds, reptiles and fishes– can be subjected and kept in subjection by human nature.

Cross References

Mark 5:4

for many a time he had been left securely bound in fetters and chains, but afterwards the chains lay torn link from link, and the fetters in fragments, and there was no one strong enough to master him.

Acts 10:12

In it were all kinds of quadrupeds, reptiles and birds,

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire. That world of iniquity, the tongue, is placed within us spotting and soiling our whole nature, and setting the whole round of our lives on fire, being itself set on fire by Gehenna.

James 3:8

But the tongue no man or woman is able to tame. It is an ever-busy mischief, and is full of deadly poison.