James 3:3 - American Standard Version (1901)

³ Now if we put the horses’ bridles into their mouths that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ If we set bits in the horses' mouths to make them obey us, we can turn their whole bodies about.

Common English Bible

³ 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

³ 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

³ For if we put bits into the mouths of horses, that they may obey us, and we turn about their whole body.

English Standard Version 2016

³ If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well.

James 3:3 Tagairtí Cros

2 Kings 19:28

Because of thy raging against me, and because thine arrogancy is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

Job 41:13

Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his jaws?

Psalm 32:9

Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding; Whose trappings must be bit and bridle to hold them in, Else they will not come near unto thee.

Psalm 39:1

I said, I will take heed to my ways, That I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, While the wicked is before me.

Isaiah 37:29

Because of thy raging against me, and because thine arrogancy is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

James 1:26

If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man’s religion is vain.

James 3:4

Behold, the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by rough winds, are yet turned about by a very small rudder, whither the impulse of the steersman willeth.