James 3:6

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

And our tongue is fire, the university of wickedness. The tongue is ordained in our members, which defouleth all the body; and it is enflamed, [or set afire], of hell, and enflameth the wheel of our birth.

Cross References

2 Samuel 16:20

And Absalom said to Ahithophel, Take ye counsel, what we owe to do.

2 Samuel 19:43

And a man of Israel answered to the men of Judah, and said, I am greater by ten parts to the king, and David pertaineth more to me than to thee; why hast thou done wrong to me, and it was not told to me the former, that I should bring again my king? Forsooth the men of Judah answered harder to the men of Israel.

2 Chronicles 13:17

Therefore Abijah and his people smote them with a great wound, and there felled down of them five hundred thousand of strong men wounded.

Psalm 140:3

They sharpened their tongues as serpents; the venom of snakes is under the lips of them.

Psalm 64:3

For they sharpened their tongues as a sword, they bend their bow, a bitter thing;

Proverbs 15:1

A soft answer breaketh ire; an hard word raiseth strong vengeance.

Proverbs 16:27

An unwise man diggeth for evil; and fire burneth in his lips.

Proverbs 6:19

a man bringing forth leasing, a false witness; and him that soweth discord among brethren.

Proverbs 7:5

That it keep thee from a strange woman; and from an alien woman, that maketh her words sweet.

Isaiah 30:27

Lo! the name of the Lord cometh down from [a] far; his strong vengeance is burning, and grievous to bear; his lips be filled of indignation, and his tongue is as fire devouring.

Isaiah 50:11

Lo! all ye kindling fire, and gird with flames, go in the light of your fire, and in the flames which ye have kindled to you. This is made of mine hand to you, ye shall sleep in sorrows.

Jeremiah 20:10

For I heard despisings of many men, and dread in compass, Pursue ye, and pursue we him, of all men that were peaceable to me, and keeping my side; if in any manner he be deceived, and we have the mastery against him, and get vengeance of him.

Jeremiah 28:16

Therefore the Lord saith these things, Lo! I shall send thee out from the face of [the] earth; in this year thou shalt die, for thou spakest against the Lord.

Leviticus 24:11

and when he had blasphemed the name of the Lord, and had cursed the Lord, he was brought to Moses; soothly his mother was called Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the lineage of Dan;

Numbers 25:2

which daughters called them to their sacrifices, and they ate, and wor-shipped the gods of those daughters;

Numbers 31:16

whether it be not these that deceived the sons of Israel, at the suggestion of Balaam, and made you to do trespass against the Lord, upon the sin of Peor, wherefore also the people was slain?

Matthew 12:24

But the Pharisees heard, and said, He this casteth not out fiends, but in Beelzebub, prince of fiends [or prince of devils].

Matthew 5:22

But I say to you, that each man that is wroth to his brother, shall be guilty to doom; and he that saith to his brother, Fie!, [that is, a word of scorn], shall be guilty to the council; but he that saith Fool, [that is, a word of despising], shall be guilty to the fire of hell.

Mark 7:15

Nothing that is without a man, that entereth into him, may defoul him; but those things that come forth of a man, those it be that defoul a man.

Luke 16:24

And he cried, and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he dip the end of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.

Acts 20:30

and men speaking shrewd [or wayward] things shall rise of your-selves, that they lead away disciples after them.

Acts 5:3

And Peter said to him, Ananias, why hath Satan tempted thine heart, that thou lie to the Holy Ghost, and to defraud of the price of the field?

Acts 6:13

And they ordained false witnesses, that said, This man ceaseth not to speak words against the holy place, and the law.

Deuteronomy 13:6

If thy brother, the son of thy mother, either thy son, either thy daughter, either the wife which is in thy bosom, either thy friend, whom thou lovest as thy soul, will counsel thee, and saith privily, Go we and serve alien gods, which thou knowest not, and thy fathers know not,

Titus 1:11

which it behooveth to be reproved; which subvert all houses, teaching which things it behooveth not, for [the] love of foul winning.

James 2:7

Whether they blaspheme not the good name, that is called to help on you? [or that is in-called of you?]

James 3:7

And all the kind of beasts, and of fowls, and of serpents, and of others is chastised, and those be made tame of man’s kind;

2 Peter 3:3

First know ye this thing, that in the last days deceivers [or scorners] shall come in deceit, going after their own covetings,

3 John 1:10

For this thing, if I shall come, I shall admonish his works, which he doeth, chiding [or chattering] against us with evil words. And as if these things suffice not to him, neither he receiveth brethren, and forbiddeth them that receive, and putteth out of the church.

Revelation 12:9

And that dragon was cast down, the great old serpent, that is called the Devil, and Satan, that deceiveth all the world; he was cast down into the earth, and his angels were sent with him.

Revelation 13:14

And it deceiveth men, that dwell in earth, for signs which be given to it to do in the sight of the beast; saying to men that dwell in earth, that they make an image of the beast, that hath the wound of [a] sword, and lived.

Revelation 18:23

and the light of [the] lantern shall no more shine in thee, and the voice of the husband and of the wife shall no more be heard in thee; for thy merchants were princes of the earth. For in thy witchcrafts all folks erred.

Revelation 19:20

And the beast was caught, and with her the false prophet, that made signs before her; in which he deceived them that took the character [or the mark] of the beast, and that worshipped the image of it. These two were sent quick into the pool of fire, burning with brimstone.