James 3:6-8

⁶A careless or wrongly placed word out of your mouth can do that. By our speech we can ruin the world, turn harmony to chaos, throw mud on a reputation, send the whole world up in smoke and go up in smoke with it, smoke right from the pit of hell.e

⁷This is scary: You can tame a tiger,

⁸but you can''t tame a tongue--it''s never been done. The tongue runs wild, a wanton killer.f