James 3:5-7

Revised Geneva Translation

⁵ Even so the tongue is a small member and boasts of great things. Behold how great a thing a little fire kindles.

⁶ And the tongue is fire, a world of wickedness. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body and sets on fire the course of nature. And it is set on fire by hell.

⁷ For the whole nature of beasts, and of birds, and of creeping things, and things of the sea is tamed (and has been tamed) by mankind.