James 3:5-7

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁵ Even so the tongue is indeed a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold how small a fire kindleth a great wood.

⁶ And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is placed among our members, which defileth the whole body, and inflameth the wheel of our nativity, being set on fire by hell.

⁷ For every nature of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of the rest, is tamed, and hath been tamed, by the nature of man: