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For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn`t stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.
3
Indeed, we put bits into the horses` mouths so that they may obey us, and we turn about their whole body.
4
Behold, the ships also, though they are so big and are driven by fierce winds, are yet turned about by a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires.
5
So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire!
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 thing in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind.
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But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.