World English Bible
James 3:7
“For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind.”
Verse in context — James 3
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So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!
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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.
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For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind.
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But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
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With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God.