James 3:6-8

Expanded Bible

⁶ And the tongue is like a fire. It is a whole world of ·evil [iniquity; unrighteousness] among ·the parts of our bodies [^Lour members]. The tongue ·spreads its evil through [pollutes; stains; corrupts] the whole body. The tongue is set on fire by hell [^LGehenna; ^Ca valley outside of Jerusalem where in the OT period children were sacrificed to a pagan god; later used as a burning trash heap; a metaphor for hell], and it starts a fire that influences ·all of life [^Lthe wheel of birth/life]. ⁷ [^LFor] People can tame every ·kind [species] of wild animal, bird, reptile, and ·fish [^Lsea creature], and they have tamed them, ⁸ but no one can tame the tongue. It is ·wild and evil [or a restless evil; or an uncontrollable evil] and full of deadly poison.