James 3:5
World English Bible (WEB)
So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!
In context
3 Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.
4 Behold, 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.
5 So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!
6 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.
7 For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and sea creature is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind;
James 3:5 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!
- KJV King James Version
- Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things. Consider how small a spark sets a great forest ablaze.
- ASV American Standard Version
- So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire!
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- so also the tongue is a little member, and doth boast greatly; lo, a little fire how much wood it doth kindle!
- DBY Darby Translation
- Thus also the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. See how little a fire, how large a wood it kindles!
- WBS Webster Bible
- Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!