James 3:6

Restraining The Tongue

⁵ so also the tongue is a little member, and doth boast greatly; lo, a little fire how much wood it doth kindle! ⁶ and the tongue is a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna. ⁷ For every nature, both of beasts and of fowls, both of creeping things and things of the sea, is subdued, and hath been subdued, by the human nature,

Members of the Body

Set on Fire

Tongue is a Fire

Valley of Hinnom

Whole Earth

Fire Of Hell

Gehenna

Proverbs 16:27

A worthless man is preparing evil, And on his lips -- as a burning fire.

Genesis 3:4-6

And the serpent saith unto the woman, 'Dying, ye do not die,

Leviticus 24:11

and the son of the Israelitish woman execrateth the Name, and revileth; and they bring him in unto Moses; and his mother's name is Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan;

Numbers 25:2

and they call for the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people eat, and bow themselves to their gods,

Numbers 31:16

lo, they -- they have been to the sons of Israel, through the word of Balaam, to cause a trespass against Jehovah in the matter of Peor, and the plague is in the company of Jehovah.

Judges 12:4-6

And Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead, and fighteth with Ephraim, and the men of Gilead smite Ephraim, because they said, 'Fugitives of Ephraim are ye Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim -- in the midst of Manasseh.'

Judges 16:15-20

And she saith unto him, 'How dost thou say, I have loved thee, and thy heart is not with me? these three times thou hast played upon me, and hast not declared to me wherein thy great power is.'

1 Samuel 22:9-17

And answer doth Doeg the Edomite, who is set over the servants of Saul, and saith, 'I have seen the son of Jesse coming in to Nob, unto Ahimelech son of Ahitub,

2 Samuel 13:26-29

And Absalom saith, 'If not -- let, I pray thee, Amnon my brother go with us;' and the king saith to him, 'Why doth he go with thee?'

2 Samuel 15:2-6

and Absalom hath risen early, and stood by the side of the way of the gate, and it cometh to pass, every man who hath a pleading to come unto the king for judgment, that Absalom calleth unto him, and saith, 'Of what city art thou?' and he saith, 'Of one of the tribes of Israel is thy servant.'

2 Samuel 16:20-2

And Absalom saith unto Ahithophel, 'Give for you counsel what we do.'

2 Samuel 19:43-1

And the men of Israel answer the men of Judah, and say, 'Ten parts we have in the king, and also in David more than you; and wherefore have ye lightly esteemed us, that our word hath not been first to bring back our king?' And the word of the men of Judah is sharper than the word of the men of Israel.

1 Kings 21:5-15

And Jezebel his wife cometh in unto him, and speaketh unto him, 'What is this? -- thy spirit sulky, and thou art not eating bread!'

2 Chronicles 10:13-16

And the king answereth them sharply, and king Rehoboam forsaketh the counsel of the aged men,

2 Chronicles 13:17

and Abijah and his people smite among them a great smiting, and there fall wounded of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

Psalm 64:3

Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow -- a bitter word.

Psalm 120:2-3

O Jehovah, deliver my soul from a lying lip, From a deceitful tongue!

Psalm 140:3

They sharpened their tongue as a serpent, Poison of an adder is under their lips. Selah.

Proverbs 1:10-14

My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing.

Proverbs 6:19

A false witness who doth breathe out lies -- And one sending forth contentions between brethren.

Proverbs 7:5

To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.

Proverbs 7:21-23

She turneth him aside with the abundance of her speech, With the flattery of her lips she forceth him.

Proverbs 15:1

A soft answer turneth back fury, And a grievous word raiseth up anger.

Proverbs 26:20-21

Without wood is fire going out, And without a tale-bearer, contention ceaseth,

Isaiah 30:27

Lo, the name of Jehovah is coming from far, Burning is His anger, and great the flame, His lips have been full of indignation, And His tongue is as a devouring fire.

Jeremiah 20:10

For I have heard the evil report of many, Fear is round about: 'Declare, and we declare it,' All mine allies are watching for my halting, 'Perhaps he is enticed, and we prevail over him, And we take our vengeance out of him.'

Jeremiah 28:16

Therefore thus said Jehovah, Lo, I am casting thee from off the face of the ground; this year thou diest, for apostasy thou hast spoken concerning Jehovah.'

Matthew 5:22

but I -- I say to you, that every one who is angry at his brother without cause, shall be in danger of the judgment, and whoever may say to his brother, Empty fellow! shall be in danger of the sanhedrim, and whoever may say, Rebel! shall be in danger of the gehenna of the fire.

Matthew 12:24

but the Pharisees having heard, said, 'This one doth not cast out demons, except by Beelzeboul, ruler of the demons.'

Matthew 12:32-36

And whoever may speak a word against the Son of Man it shall be forgiven to him, but whoever may speak against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this age, nor in that which is coming.

Matthew 15:11-20

not that which is coming into the mouth doth defile the man, but that which is coming forth from the mouth, this defileth the man.'

Mark 7:15

there is nothing from without the man entering into him that is able to defile him, but the things coming out from him, those are the things defiling the man.

Mark 7:20-22

And he said -- 'That which is coming out from the man, that doth defile the man;

Mark 14:55-57

And the chief priests and all the sanhedrim were seeking against Jesus testimony -- to put him to death, and they were not finding,

Luke 16:24

and having cried, he said, Father Abraham, deal kindly with me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and may cool my tongue, because I am distressed in this flame.

Acts 5:3

And Peter said, 'Ananias, wherefore did the Adversary fill thy heart, for thee to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back of the price of the place?

Acts 6:13

they set up also false witnesses, saying, 'This one doth not cease to speak evil sayings against this holy place and the law,

Acts 20:30

and of your own selves there shall arise men, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

Romans 3:13-14

A sepulchre opened is their throat; with their tongues they used deceit; poison of asps is under their lips.

Romans 16:17-18

And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them;

2 Corinthians 11:13-15

for those such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ,

Ephesians 5:3-4

and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

Colossians 3:8-9

but now put off, even ye, the whole -- anger, wrath, malice, evil-speaking, filthy talking -- out of your mouth.

2 Thessalonians 2:9-12

him, whose presence is according to the working of the Adversary, in all power, and signs, and lying wonders,

Titus 1:11

whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake.

James 2:7

do they not themselves speak evil of the good name that was called upon you?

2 Peter 2:1-2

And there did come also false prophets among the people, as also among you there shall be false teachers, who shall bring in besides destructive sects, and the Master who bought them denying, bringing to themselves quick destruction,

2 Peter 3:3

this first knowing, that there shall come in the latter end of the days scoffers, according to their own desires going on,

3 John 1:10

because of this, if I may come, I will cause him to remember his works that he doth, with evil words prating against us; and not content with these, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and those intending he doth forbid, and out of the assembly he doth cast.

Jude 1:8-10

In like manner, nevertheless, those dreaming also the flesh indeed do defile, and lordship they put away, and dignities they speak evil of,

Jude 1:15-18

to do judgment against all, and to convict all their impious ones, concerning all their works of impiety that they did impiously, and concerning all the stiff things that speak against Him did impious sinners.'

Revelation 2:14-15

'But I have against thee a few things: That thou hast there those holding the teaching of Balaam, who did teach Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat idol-sacrifices, and to commit whoredom;

Revelation 12:9

and the great dragon was cast forth -- the old serpent, who is called 'Devil,' and 'the Adversary,' who is leading astray the whole world -- he was cast forth to the earth, and his messengers were cast forth with him.

Revelation 13:1-5

And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and I saw out of the sea a beast coming up, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon its horns ten diadems, and upon its heads a name of evil speaking,

Revelation 13:14

and it leadeth astray those dwelling on the land, because of the signs that were given it to do before the beast, saying to those dwelling upon the land to make an image to the beast that hath the stroke of the sword and did live,

Revelation 18:23

and light of a lamp may not shine at all in thee any more; and voice of bridegroom and of bride may not be heard at all in thee any more; because thy merchants were the great ones of the earth, because in thy sorcery were all the nations led astray,

Revelation 19:20

and the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who did the signs before him, in which he led astray those who did receive the mark of the beast, and those who did bow before his image; living they were cast -- the two -- to the lake of the fire, that is burning with brimstone;

Deuteronomy 13:6

When thy brother -- son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend who is as thine own soul -- doth move thee, in secret, saying, Let us go and serve other gods -- (which thou hast not known, thou and thy fathers,