rsv James:3:5-9
rsv@James:3:5 @ So the tongue is a little member and boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by a small fire!
rsv@James:3:6 @ And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is an unrighteous world among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the cycle of nature, and set on fire by hell.
rsv@James:3:7 @ For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by humankind,
rsv@James:3:8 @ but no human being can tame the tongue--a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
rsv@James:3:9 @ With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the likeness of God.