James 3:2
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.
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James 3:2
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.
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James 3:3
Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
James 3:4
Behold 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.
James 3:5
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
James 3:7
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:
James 3:8
But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Proverbs 10:19
In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
Matthew 12:35
A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
Matthew 12:36
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
James 1:19
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Colossians 4:6
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Psalms 34:13
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Psalms 141:3
Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
Proverbs 21:23
Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
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James 3:1
My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
Proverbs 17:27
He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.
Psalms 106:33
Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.
James 2:10
For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
James 3:9
Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
James 3:10
Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
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:
Titus 2:8
Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
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Philippians 3:12
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:13
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
Philippians 3:15
Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
Matthew 5:48
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
1 Corinthians 2:6
Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
James 1:4
But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
Colossians 4:12
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
2 Peter 1:6
And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
Revelation 3:2
Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.
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2 Chronicles 6:36
If they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;
Psalms 143:2
And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Job 15:14
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Romans 3:23
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Psalms 130:3
If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
Job 9:20
If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
Isaiah 6:5
Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Psalms 19:12
Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.
Isaiah 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah 64:6
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
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Romans 7:20
Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Romans 7:21
I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
Romans 7:23
But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Galatians 5:17
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
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Psalms 17:3
Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
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