7 For brute nature under all its forms –beasts and birds, reptiles and fishes– can be subjected and kept in subjection by human nature.
8 But the tongue no man or woman is able to tame. It is an ever-busy mischief, and is full of deadly poison.
9 It is in consequence of this that God has also so highly exalted Him, and has conferred on Him the Name which is supreme above every other,
10 in order that in the Name of JESUS every knee should bow, of beings in Heaven, of those on the earth, and of those in the underworld,
11 and that every tongue should confess that JESUS CHRIST is LORD, to the glory of God the Father.
1 If I can speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but am destitute of Love, I have but become a loud-sounding trumpet or a clanging cymbal.
26 If a man thinks that he is scrupulously religious, although he is not curbing his tongue but is deceiving himself, his religious service is worthless.
9 With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in God's likeness.
10 Out of the same mouth there proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, this ought not to be.
11 In a fountain, are fresh water and bitter sent forth from the same opening?
12 Can a fig-tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine yield figs? No; and neither can salt water yield sweet.
2 For we often stumble and fall, all of us. If there is any one who never stumbles in speech, that man has reached maturity of character and is able to curb his whole nature.
36 But I tell you that for every careless word that men shall speak they will be held accountable on the day of Judgement.
37 For each of you by his words shall be justified, or by his words shall be condemned.«
3 Remember that we put the horses' bit into their mouths to make them obey us, and so we turn their whole bodies round.
4 So too with ships, great as they are, and often driven along by strong gales, yet they can be steered with a very small rudder in whichever direction the caprice of the man at the helm chooses.
5 In the same way the tongue is an insignificant part of the body, but it is immensely boastful. Remember how a mere spark may set a vast forest in flames.
6 And the tongue is a fire. That world of iniquity, the tongue, is placed within us spotting and soiling our whole nature, and setting the whole round of our lives on fire, being itself set on fire by Gehenna.