James 3:3 BBE

¹  Do not all be teachers, my brothers, because we teachers will be judged more hardly than others.

²  For we all go wrong in a number of things. If a man never makes a slip in his talk, then he is a complete man and able to keep all his body in control.

³  Now if we put bits of iron into horses' mouths so that they may be guided by us, we have complete control of their bodies.

⁴  And again ships, though they are so great and are moved by violent winds, are turned by a very small guiding-blade, at the impulse of the man who is using it.

⁵  Even so the tongue is a small part of the body, but it takes credit for great things. How much wood may be lighted by a very little fire!