⁵ Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

⁶ And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

⁸ But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

¹⁰ Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.