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James 3:5-7
American Standard Version
James 3:5-7
American Standard Version
5 So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, [a]how much wood is kindled by how small a fire! 6 And the tongue is [b]a fire: [c]the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of [d]nature, and is set on fire by [e]hell. 7 For every [f]kind of beasts and birds, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed [g]by [h]mankind:
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- James 3:5 Or, how great a forest
- James 3:6 Or, a fire, that world of iniquity: the tongue is among our members that which etc.
- James 3:6 Or, that world of iniquity, the tongue, is among our members that which etc.
- James 3:6 Or, birth
- James 3:6 Greek Gehenna.
- James 3:7 Greek nature.
- James 3:7 Or, unto
- James 3:7 Greek the human nature.
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