James 3:2 · KJV
“For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same {is} a perfect man, {and} able also to bridle the whole body.”
— James 3:2
My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. {condemnation: or, judgment}
Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
James 3 — Context
My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. {condemnation: or, judgment}
2For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same {is} a perfect man, {and} able also to bridle the whole body.
3Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
4Behold also the ships, which though {they be} so great, and {are} driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.
Cross References
James 1:26
If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion {is} vain.
Proverbs 13:3
He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: {but} he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
1 Peter 3:10
For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
Matthew 12:37
For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
James 3:5-6
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! {a matter: or, wood}
Psalms 34:13
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Proverbs 20:9
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
1 John 1:8-10
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.