Because your raging against Me and your arrogance reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose, and My bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way you came.”
James 3:3 - Tree of Life Version And if we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we guide their whole body as well. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If we set bits in the horses' mouths to make them obey us, we can turn their whole bodies about. American Standard Version (1901) Now if we put the horses’ bridles into their mouths that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also. Common English Bible When we bridle horses and put bits in their mouths to lead them wherever we want, we can control their whole bodies. Catholic Public Domain Version For so we put bridles into the mouths of horses, in order to submit them to our will, and so we turn their whole body around. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For if we put bits into the mouths of horses, that they may obey us, and we turn about their whole body. |
Because your raging against Me and your arrogance reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose, and My bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way you came.”
Do not be like the horse or the mule, which have no understanding, and must be held in with bit and bridle or they will not come to you.”
Because your raging against Me and your arrogance reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose, and My bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way that you came.”
If anyone thinks he is religious and yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s religion is futile.
See also the ships—though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs.