James 3:1-8 ▼

1 My brethren be not every ma a master remembringe how that we shall receave the more damnacion:

2 for in many thinges we synne all. Yf a man synne not in worde the same is a parfecte ma and able to tame all the body.

3 Beholde we put bittes into ye horses mouthes that they shuld obeye vs and we turne aboute all the body.

4 Beholde also the shyppes which though they be so gret and are dryven of fearce windes yet are they turned about with a very smale helme whither soever the violence of the governer wyll.

5 Even so the tonge is a lyttell member and bosteth great thinges. Beholde how gret a thinge a lyttell fyre kyndleth

6 and the tonge is fyre and a worlde of wyckednes. So is the tonge set amonge oure members that it defileth the whole body and setteth a fyre all that we have of nature and is it selfe set a fyre even of hell.

7 All the natures of beastes and of byrdes and of serpentes and thinges of ye see are meked and tamed of the nature of man.

8 But the tonge can no man tame. Yt is an vntuely evyll full of deedly poyson.