Taming the Tongue

           1 Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.

          2  For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. 

  

           3 If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well.

                      


        4 Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs.


         5 So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things.How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire!

        6  And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.


        7  For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind,


        8  but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.



                                                                                  Praise The Lord