3:3 Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body. Psalm 32:9 Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
3:5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! Proverbs 12:18 There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health. Proverbs 15:2 The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.
3:6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue 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. Proverbs 16:27 An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
3:8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Psalm 140:3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips.
3:9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. Genesis 1:26, And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. Genesis 5:1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; Genesis 9:6 Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
3:11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
Proverbs 2:11-12 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward
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