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2 For in many things we all stumble. Anyone who does not offend in word, this one is a perfect man, and able also to subdue his whole body. 3 Behold, we put bits into the mouths of horses, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body. 4 Behold also the ships, great as they are, when driven by severe winds, they are turned about with a very small rudder, wherever the pilot wishes. 5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Likewise, a small fire sets ablaze the large forests. 6 The tongue is a fire, and the sinful world like a forest: that very tongue, while it is among our members, can defile our whole body, and set on fire the records of our race which have rolled down from the beginning: and in the end it is consumed by fire. James 3:2-6, Lamsa Bible. Public domain.
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