8and the tongue no one of men is able to subdue, it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison,


In Context

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

6 and the tongue is a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.

7 For every nature, both of beasts and of fowls, both of creeping things and things of the sea, is subdued, and hath been subdued, by the human nature,

8 and the tongue no one of men is able to subdue, it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison,

9 with it we do bless the God and Father, and with it we do curse the men made according to the similitude of God;

10 out of the same mouth doth come forth blessing and cursing; it doth not need, my brethren, these things so to happen;

James 3:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:8But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:8but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:8But the tongue no man can tame, an unquiet evil, full of deadly poison.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:8But the tongue can no man tame; it is a restless evil, it is full of deadly poison.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:8but the tongue can no one among men tame; it is an unsettled evil, full of death-bringing poison.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:8but the tongue can no man tame; it is a restless evil, it is full of deadly poison.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:8But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:8But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:8But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.