James 3:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

A world

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Revelation 12:9

General references

Matthew 15:18

Mark 7:20

Bible References

A world

And do they not blaspheme the good name by which you are called?

But the Pharisees hearing it, said, This man does not cast out demons, except by Beelzebul, a ruler of the demons.

Not that which enters into the mouth, defiles the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth that defiles the man.

Nothing which being out of a man entering into him, can defile him; but those things which proceed from the man, these are the things which defile the man.

And the chief priests and all the Sanhedrim sought testimony against Jesus to kill him, and did not find it.

and brought forward false witnesses who said, This man speaks incessantly against this holy place, and the law;

and of yourselves men will arise speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

their throat is an opened tomb, with their tongues they practise deceit, the poison of asps is under their lips.

I exhort you, brothers, to observe those that cause dissensions and offenses contrary to the teaching which you learned, and avoid them;

Let not fornication and any impurity or covetousness be named among you, as becomes saints,

but now do you put away also all these, anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, vile conversation out of your mouth;

and with every unrighteous deceit among those who are destroyed, because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved.

whom it is necessary to silence, who mislead whole families, teaching for base gain what they ought not.

But there were also false prophets among the people, as there shall also be false teachers among you, who shall bring in by stealth destructive heresies, even denying the master that bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction;

knowing this first, that in the last days scoffers shall come with scoffing walking after their inordinate desires,

Therefore if I come I will remember his works which he performs, prating against us with evil words, and not being satisfied, in addition to these [things] he does not receive the brothers, and forbids and casts out of the church those wishing to do it.

In like manner also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject government, and blaspheme glories.

But I have a few things against you; you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put an occasion of sin before the children of Israel, both to eat things offered to idols and to commit fornication.

And I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast come up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and upon his horns ten diadems, and upon his heads names of blasphemy.

and the light of a candle shall shine in you no more, and the voice of a bridegroom and of a bride shall be heard in you no more, for your merchants were the great ones of the earth, for all nations were deceived by your magic arts,

And the beast was taken and with him the false prophet who performed miracles before him, with which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who worship his image; and the two were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with sulphur.

It is

And he called and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am in pain in this flame.

But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart that you should lie to the Holy Spirit, and that you should keep back a part of the price of the land?

For such false apostles, deceitful laborers, transform themselves into apostles of Christ.

whose coming is according to the power of Satan, with all power and miracles and false prodigies

And the great dragon, the old serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, and who deceives all the world, was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast [to the earth] with him.

General references

But the things which proceed from the mouth come from the heart, and these defile the man.

But he said, that which comes out of the man, this defiles him;