James 3:6 CPDV

⁴  Consider also the ships, which, though they are great and may be driven by strong winds, yet they are turned around with a small rudder, to be directed to wherever the strength of the pilot might will.

⁵  So also the tongue certainly is a small part, but it moves great things. Consider that a small fire can set ablaze a great forest.

⁶  And so the tongue is like a fire, comprising all iniquity. The tongue, stationed in the midst of our body, can defile the entire body and inflame the wheel of our nativity, setting a fire from Hell.

⁷  For the nature of all beasts and birds and serpents and others is ruled over, and has been ruled over, by human nature.

⁸  But no man is able to rule over the tongue, a restless evil, full of deadly poison.