For every species, both of beasts and of birds, both of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by the human species.

but the tongue no human being can tame. It is an evil incapable of being quieted, full of deadly poison.

This is not the kind of wisdom that comes down from above; no, it is earthly, human, demoniacal.

and the rich man is to glory in being humbled [by trials revealing human frailty, knowing true riches are found in the grace of God], for like the flower of the grass he will pass away.

For just as the [human] body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works [of obedience] is also dead.

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours [with the same physical, mental, and spiritual limitations and shortcomings], and he prayed intensely for it not to rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.

for human anger does not accomplish the righteousness of God.

And the tongue [is] a fire! The world of unrighteousness, the tongue, is set among our members, defiling the whole body and setting on fire {the course of human existence}, being set on fire by hell.