Tiago 3

3 For if we put bridles into horses’ mouths, for to consent to us, and we lead about all the body of them.

4 And lo! ships, when they be great, and be driven of strong winds, yet they be borne about of a little rudder, where the moving of the governor will.

5 So also the tongue is but a little member, and raiseth great things. Lo! how little fire burneth [or kindleth] a full great wood.

6 And our tongue is fire, the university of wickedness. The tongue is ordained in our members, which defouleth all the body; and it is enflamed, [or set afire], of hell, and enflameth the wheel of our birth.

7 And all the kind of beasts, and of fowls, and of serpents, and of others is chastised, and those be made tame of man’s kind;

8 but no man may chastise the tongue, for it is an unpeaceable evil, and full of deadly venom.