5So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire!


In Context

2 For in many things we all stumble. If any stumbleth not in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.

3 Now if we put the horses bridles into their mouths that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also.

4 Behold, the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by rough winds, are yet turned about by a very small rudder, whither the impulse of the steersman willeth.

5 So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire!

6 And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell.

7 For every kind of beasts and birds, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind.

James 3:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:5Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:5Even so the tongue is indeed a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold how small a fire kindleth a great wood.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:5Thus also the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. See how little a fire, how large a wood it kindles!

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:5So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire!

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:5Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:5So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:5so also the tongue is a little member, and doth boast greatly; lo, a little fire how much wood it doth kindle!

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:5Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindles!