and then pouring water into a bason, began to wash the feet of his disciples, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith He was girded.

Their throat is an open sepulchre: with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

Mortify therefore your members that are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, disorderly passion, evil concupiscence, and insatiable desire, which is indeed idolatry:

not in the passion of lust, like the heathens who know not God.

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