James 3:7

James chapter 3 · verse 7 in three public-domain English translations with scriptural context

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

For every kind of beasts and birds, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind:

KJV

King James Version · 1611

For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

For every kind of beasts and birds, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind:

Context

v.6And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell.

v.7This passage

v.8but the tongue can no man tame; it is a restless evil, it is full of deadly poison.