5So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!
5So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!
2 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.
3 Indeed, we put bits into the horses' mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.
4 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.
5 So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!
6 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.
7 For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by 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 also the tongue is a little member, and doth boast greatly; lo, a little fire how much wood it doth kindle!
3:5Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindles!