James 3:6

Restraining The Tongue

⁵ So also the tongue is a small member and makes great boasts. Behold, how great a forest is set on fire by a little spark! ⁶ And the tongue is a fire; it is a very world of iniquity among our members, defiling the whole body, and setting on fire the wheel of nature, and is itself set on fire by hell. ⁷ For while every kind of beast and bird, and of reptiles and sea-creatures are tamable, and actually have been tamed by mankind,

Members of the Body

Set on Fire

Tongue is a Fire

Valley of Hinnom

Whole Earth

Fire Of Hell

Gehenna

Matthew 5:22

but I say to you that he who becomes angry with his brother shall be liable to condemnation by the court; and he who says to his brother 'Raca,' shall be liable to condemnation by the Sanhedrin, while he who curses his brother shall be liable to the Gehenna of Fire.

Matthew 12:24

When the Pharisees heard it they said, "It is only by the aid of Beelzebub, the Prince of the demons, that this fellow is driving out demons."

Matthew 12:32-36

"And if any man say a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this age or in that which is to come.

Matthew 15:11-20

"Listen, and pay attention. It is not what goes into a man's mouth that defiles him, but what comes out of it, that defiles the man."

Mark 7:15

"Listen to me, all of you, and understand; there is nothing outside a man which by entering in can defile him; but it is what comes from him that defiled him."

Mark 7:20-22

"What comes out of a man," he continued, "is what defiles him.

Mark 14:55-57

Meanwhile the high priests and all of the Sanhedrin were trying to get evidence against Jesus, so as to have him put to death, but they found none;

Luke 16:24

"And he cried out 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 anguish in this flame.'

Acts 5:3

"Ananias," said Peter, "why has Satan so filled your heart that you are lying to the Holy Spirit, and keeping back part of the price of the land?

Acts 6:13

They also set up false witnesses who testified. "This fellow is continually talking against the Holy Place and against the law.

Acts 20:30

and that from among your own number, men will arise, perverting the truth, to draw away the disciples after them.

Romans 3:13-14

Their throat is an open grave; With their tongues they have used deceit. The venom of asps is under their lips.

Romans 16:17-18

I exhort you, brothers, to keep watch of those who are causing the divisions among you, and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the teaching which you have learned.

2 Corinthians 11:13-15

For such fellows are sham apostles of Christ.

Ephesians 5:3-4

As for sexual vice and every kind of impurity or lust, it is unbecoming for you as Christians even to mention them;

Colossians 3:8-9

But now you also must renounce them all. Anger, passion, and ill-will must be put away; slander, too, and foul talk, so that they may never soil your lips.

2 Thessalonians 2:9-12

even he whose coming is according to the energy of Satan, in every power and sign and lying wonder,

Titus 1:11

for they upset whole households and, for filthy lucre's sake, teach what they ought not to teach.

James 2:7

Are they not blaspheming that glorious Name by which you are called?

2 Peter 2:1-2

But there were false prophets, too, among the people, just as among you also there will be false teachers. These will secretly bring in destructive sects, denying even the Master who bought them, and bringing swift ruin upon themselves.

2 Peter 3:3

Know this first, that mockers will come in the last days, in their mockery, men who walk the way of their own lusts

3 John 1:10

Do them when I come I will recall to mind the deeds which he is doing, prating against me with wicked words. Not satisfied with that, he refuses to receive the brothers, forbids those that would receive them, and excommunicates them from the church.

Jude 1:8-10

Yet in just the same way these dreamers also defile the flesh, while they set at naught dominion and scoff at dignities.

Jude 1:15-18

to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all the ungodly deeds which in their ungodliness they have committed; and of all the hard things which they have spoken against Him, ungodly sinners that they are!"

Revelation 2:14-15

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat food offered to idols, and to practise immorality.

Revelation 12:9

Now the great dragon was thrown down??hat old Serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Revelation 13:1-5

Then I saw rising up out of the sea a beast who had ten horns and seven heads. On his horns he had ten diadems, and on his heads blasphemous titles.

Revelation 13:14

And he deceives those who dwell on the earth, because of the miracles, which he is permitted to perform in the sight of the beast. He tells those who live on the earth to make an image to the beast who had the sword-stroke, yet lived.

Revelation 18:23

No light of a lamp shall ever shine in you again; And in you shall the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride be heard no more. For your merchants were the princes of the earth; And with your sorcery were all the nations deceived;

Revelation 19:20

And the beast was seized, and with him the false prophet who performed miracles in his presence to deceive those who had received the brand of the beast, and those who worshiped his image. The two were thrown alive into the lake of fire, blazing with brimstone.