Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment. 1Ti 1:7Luk 12:47-481Pe 5:31Co 12:28Mat 23:13Mat 23:8-102Co 5:10Rom 2:20-21 For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also. Jas 1:26Pro 13:31Pe 3:10Mat 12:37Psa 34:13Jas 3:5-6Pro 20:91Jn 1:8-10 Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body. Psa 32:9Psa 39:1Jas 1:262Ki 19:28Isa 37:29 Behold, 1 the ships also, though they are so big and are driven by fierce winds, are yet guided by a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires. Mat 8:24Act 27:14-38Psa 107:25-27Jon 1:4 So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest! Pro 18:21Jer 9:3-8Pro 12:18Pro 15:2Psa 17:10Psa 73:8-9Psa 12:2-4Psa 52:1-2 And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna. 2 Psa 120:2-3Pro 16:27Mrk 7:15Mat 15:11-20Pro 15:1Mrk 7:20-22Luk 16:24Col 3:8-9 For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and sea creature is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind; Mrk 5:4 but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. Rom 3:13Psa 140:3Psa 55:21Jas 3:6Psa 57:4Psa 64:3-4Psa 58:4Psa 59:7 With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men who are made in the image of God. Psa 10:7Gen 1:26-27Isa 29:13Psa 62:4Gen 9:6Psa 59:122Sa 19:21Act 2:26 Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. Rom 12:141Pe 3:91Co 3:3Psa 50:16-201Ti 5:13Mic 3:11Gen 20:9Jer 7:4-10 Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water? Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water. Luk 6:43-44Mat 12:33Mat 7:16-20Jer 2:21Rom 11:16-18Ezk 47:8-11Isa 5:2-42Ki 2:19-22
Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom. Gal 5:23Jas 3:17Mat 5:5Col 3:121Pe 2:12Tit 3:22Ti 2:25Php 1:27 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth. Jas 3:161Co 13:4Php 2:31Co 3:3Rom 13:132Co 12:201Pe 2:1-2Php 1:15 This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic. Jas 3:171Co 3:19Jas 1:171Co 2:14Jhn 3:17Php 3:191Ti 4:12Co 1:12 For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed. Jas 3:141Co 3:31Co 14:331Jn 3:12Gal 5:20Gen 11:9Act 19:29 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. Gal 5:22-23Pro 2:61Co 13:4-7Jas 3:15Rom 12:9Mat 5:8Jas 1:5Jas 1:17 Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. Mat 5:9Hos 10:12Php 1:11Isa 32:16-17Gal 6:8Pro 11:30Pro 11:18Heb 12:11