Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible



Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven by fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires. Verse ConceptsWindShipsBig ThingsSmall ThingsMarinersThe TongueDirectionStaying Strong During Hard Timessailing

Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven by fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires. Verse ConceptsWindShipsBig ThingsSmall ThingsMarinersThe TongueDirectionStaying Strong During Hard Timessailing

Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven by fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires. Verse ConceptsWindShipsBig ThingsSmall ThingsMarinersThe TongueDirectionStaying Strong During Hard Timessailing

Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven by fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires. Verse ConceptsWindShipsBig ThingsSmall ThingsMarinersThe TongueDirectionStaying Strong During Hard Timessailing


For in many things we all offend. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body. Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven by fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires. read more.
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how great a forest a little fire kindles! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell. For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind: But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. With this bless we God, even the Father; and with this curse we men, who are made after the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Does a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.

[To the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.] I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked are before me. Verse ConceptsPrudenceReadinessRestraintSpeech, Positive Aspects OfTongueWatchfulness, Of BelieversSpeaking, Wisdom InVigilanceIndividuals Being SilentThe TongueGod's TimingGods TimingWaiting For God's TimingGuarding Yourself

My brethren, be not many teachers, knowing that we shall receive the severer judgment. For in many things we all offend. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body. read more.
Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven by fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires. Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how great a forest a little fire kindles!

And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship; Verse ConceptsStormsThe Next DayBuoyancyAbandoning Things

Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven by fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires. Verse ConceptsWindShipsBig ThingsSmall ThingsMarinersThe TongueDirectionStaying Strong During Hard Timessailing

But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves: for the wind was contrary. Verse ConceptsWindFar From HereThe Sea Stirred Uplakes

Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven by fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires. Verse ConceptsWindShipsBig ThingsSmall ThingsMarinersThe TongueDirectionStaying Strong During Hard Timessailing