James 3:3-9

³Beholde, we put bittes into the horses mouthes, that they should obey vs, and we turne about all their bodie.

⁴Behold also the shippes, which though they be so great, and are driuen of fierce windes, yet are they turned about with a very small rudder, whither soeuer the gouernour listeth.

⁵Euen so the tongue is a litle member, and boasteth of great things: beholde, howe great a thing a litle fire kindleth.

⁶And the tongue is fire, yea, a worlde of wickednesse: so is the tongue set among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature, and it is set on fire of hell.

⁷For the whole nature of beasts, and of birds, and of creeping things, and things of the sea is tamed, and hath bene tamed of the nature of man.

⁸But the tongue can no man tame. It is an vnruly euill, full of deadly poyson.

⁹Therewith blesse we God euen the Father, and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.