⁵ So also the tongue is a small part of the body, and yet it ^(A)boasts of great things.

^(B)Behold how great a forest is set aflame by such a small fire! ⁶ And ^(C)the tongue is a fire, the very world of unrighteousness; the tongue is set among our members as that which ^(D)defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our ^[a]existence, and is set on fire by ^[b](E)hell. ⁷ For every kind of beasts and birds, of reptiles and creatures of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind.