King James Version
"Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!"
— James 3:5, King James Version
“So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire! ”
“So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!”
“So too the tongue is a small part of the body, yet it has great pretensions. Think how small a flame sets a huge forest ablaze.”
“Even so the tongue is indeed a little member and boasteth great things. Behold how small a fire kindleth a great wood.”
“Even so the tongue is a small part of the body, but it takes credit for great things. How much wood may be lighted by a very little fire!”
“Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!”
For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
And 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.
For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.