James 3:8

Yet no one can tame the tongue; it is a restless evil full of deadly poison. Human effort alone cannot master sinful speech.

Cross-references · 11

• Rom 3:13Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
• Ps 140:3They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.
• Ps 55:21The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.
• Jas 3:6And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
• Ps 57:4My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
• Ps 64:3–4Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
• Ps 59:7Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
• Ps 58:4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
• Eccl 10:11Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.
• Deut 32:33Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
• Rev 12:9And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

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