5Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindles!
5Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindles!
2 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.
3 Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
4 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, wherever the governor wants.
5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindles!
6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed of mankind:
3:5Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
3:5Likewise the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark.
3:5Even so the tongue is indeed a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold how small a fire kindleth a great wood.
3:5So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire!
3:5Thus also the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. See how little a fire, how large a wood it kindles!
3:5So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire!
3:5Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
3:5So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!
3:5so also the tongue is a little member, and doth boast greatly; lo, a little fire how much wood it doth kindle!