James 3:5

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

So also the tongue is but a little member, and raiseth great things. Lo! how little fire burneth [or kindleth] a full great wood.

Cross References

Job 22:17

Which said to God, Go thou away from us; and as if Almighty God may do nothing, they guessed him,

Psalm 10:3

For why the sinner is praised in the desires of his soul; and the wicked is blessed. The sinner hath stirred the Lord to wrath;

Psalm 17:10

they have closed together their fatness; the mouth of them spake pride.

Psalm 39:1

For victory, to Jeduthun, the psalm of David. I said, I shall keep my ways; that I trespass not in my tongue. I setted [or put] keeping to my mouth; when a sinner stood against me.

Exodus 15:9

The enemy said, I shall pursue, and I shall overtake; I shall part spoils, my soul, that is, my will, shall be fulfilled. I shall draw out my sword; mine hand shall slay them.

Exodus 5:2

And Pharaoh answered, Who is the Lord, that I hear his voice, and deliver Israel? I know not the Lord, and I shall not deliver Israel.

Proverbs 12:18

A man is that promiseth, and he is pricked as with the sword of conscience; but the tongue of wise men is health.

Proverbs 15:2

The tongue of wise men honoureth knowing; the mouth of fools boileth out folly.

Proverbs 18:21

Death and life be in the works of [the] tongue; they that love it, shall eat the fruits thereof.

Proverbs 26:20

When trees [or woods shall] fail, the fire shall be quenched; and when a privy backbiter is withdrawn, strives rest.

Jeremiah 18:18

And they said, Come ye, and think we thoughts against Jeremy; for why the law shall not perish from a priest, neither counsel shall perish from a wise man, neither word shall perish from a prophet; come ye, and smite we him with tongue, and take we none heed to all the words of him.

Ezekiel 28:2

Son of man, say thou to the prince of Tyre, The Lord God saith these things, For thine heart was raised [up], and thou saidest, I am God, and I sat in the chair of God, in the heart of the sea, since thou art man and not God, and thou gavest thine heart as the heart of God;

Ezekiel 29:3

Speak thou, and thou shalt say, The Lord God saith these things, Lo! I to thee, thou Pharaoh, king of Egypt, thou great dragon, that liest in the midst of thy floods, and sayest, The flood is mine, and I made it for myself.

Daniel 3:15

Now therefore be ye ready, in whatever hour ye hear the sound of trump, of pipe, of harp, of sambuca, of psaltery, and of symphony, and of all kind of musics, bow ye down you, and worship the image which I made; that if ye worship not, in the same hour ye shall be sent into the furnace of fire burning; and who is God that shall deliver you from mine hand?

Daniel 4:30

and the king answered, and said, whether this is not Babylon, the great city, which I builded into the house of the realm, in the might of my strength, and in the glory of my fairness?

James 3:4

And lo! ships, when they be great, and be driven of strong winds, yet they be borne about of a little rudder, where the moving of the governor will.

2 Peter 2:18

And they speak in pride of vanity, and deceive in desires of flesh of lechery them, that escape a little. Which live in error,

Jude 1:16

These be grutchers full of com-plaints, wandering after their desires; and the mouth of them speaketh pride, worshipping persons, because of winning.