James 3:5

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Likewise the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things. See how a small flame can set a large forest ablaze!

Cross References

Proverbs 18:21

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

Proverbs 12:18

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

Proverbs 15:2

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools gush out folly.

Psalm 17:10

They close up their callous hearts. Their mouths speak with arrogance.

Jude 1:16

These are grumblers and complainers, following after their desires. Their mouths speak proud things, flattering people to gain advantage.

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said, “Come, y’all! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah, for the law won’t be lost from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, y’all, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

Psalm 10:3

For the wicked boasts of his heart’s desires. He blesses the greedy and condemns YHWH.

Ezekiel 28:2

“Son of humanity, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘Lord YHWH says: “Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas;’ yet you are man, and no god, though you set your heart as the heart of a god—

2 Peter 2:18

As they speak with high-sounding but empty words, they entice to the desires of the flesh and sensuality, those who are have barely escaped from those who live in error,

Daniel 4:30

The king spoke and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”

Job 22:17

who said to God, ‘Depart from us!’ and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’

Exodus 15:9

The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder. My desire will be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword. My hand will destroy them.’

Daniel 3:15

Now when y’all hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music if y’all are ready to fall down and worship the image that I have made, good. But if y’all don’t worship, y’all will be cast the same hour into the middle of a burning fiery furnace. What god who will deliver you from my hands?”

Ezekiel 29:3

Speak and say, ‘This is what Lord YHWH says: “Look! I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies in the middle of his rivers, that has said, ‘My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.’

Exodus 5:2

Pharaoh said, “Who is YHWH, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know YHWH, and moreover I will not let Israel go.”

Psalm 39:1

I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”

Proverbs 26:20

For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.

James 3:4

Look at the ships too. Though they are large and driven by fierce winds, they are directed by a tiny rudder, wherever the pilot desires.