World English Bible
"So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!"
— James 3:5, World English Bible
“Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!”
“So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire! ”
“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 all stumble. If anyone doesn't stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.
Indeed, we put bits into the horses' mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.
Behold, the ships also, though they are so big and are driven by fierce winds, are yet guided by a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires.
So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!
And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.
For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind.
But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.