James 3:3

James 3:3
Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.

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Numbers 11:10
Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent; and Yahweh’s anger burned greatly; and Moses was displeased.

Numbers 11:11
Moses said to Yahweh, “Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why haven’t I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?

Numbers 11:12
Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them out, that you should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which you swore to their fathers?’

Numbers 11:13
Where could I get meat to give all these people? For they weep before me, saying, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’

Numbers 11:14
I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.

Numbers 11:15
If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”

Numbers 12:3
Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all the men who were on the surface of the earth.

2 Corinthians 11:5
For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.

2 Corinthians 12:11
I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

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Numbers 20:10
Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels! Shall we bring water out of this rock for you?”

Numbers 20:11
Moses lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice, and water came out abundantly. The congregation and their livestock drank.

Numbers 20:12
Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you didn’t believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”

Psalms 106:32
They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses was troubled for their sakes;

Psalms 106:33
because they were rebellious against his spirit, he spoke rashly with his lips.

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Job 10:3
Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

Job 12:6
The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.

Job 15:13
that you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

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Job 41:2
Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?

Isaiah 30:28
His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction. A bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.

Ezekiel 29:4
I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will make the fish of your rivers stick to your scales. I will bring you up out of the middle of your rivers, with all the fish of your rivers which stick to your scales.

Amos 4:2
The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness, “Behold, the days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, and the last of you with fish hooks.

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Job 41:13
Who can strip off his outer garment? Who will come within his jaws?

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Job 8:2
“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

Job 38:2
“Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

Job 42:3
You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ therefore I have uttered that which I didn’t understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know.

Job 42:6
Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

Job 42:7
It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

Job 42:8
Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.”

Psalms 19:14
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.

Psalms 139:4
For there is not a word on my tongue, but behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.

Zephaniah 1:12
It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, “Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil.”

Malachi 3:14
You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God,’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?

Malachi 3:15
Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’

Malachi 3:16
Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened and heard, and a book of memory was written before him for those who feared Yahweh and who honored his name.

Matthew 12:35
The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil things.

James 5:14
Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;

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Psalms 39:2
I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.

Psalms 141:3
Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

Proverbs 10:31
The mouth of the righteous produces wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.

Proverbs 13:2
By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good things, but the unfaithful crave violence.

Proverbs 15:2
The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools gush out folly.

Proverbs 16:10
Inspired judgments are on the lips of the king. He shall not betray his mouth.

Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

Proverbs 19:1
Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

Proverbs 21:26
There are those who covet greedily all day long; but the righteous give and don’t withhold.

Ephesians 5:4
nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.

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Proverbs 17:27
He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.

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Proverbs 17:28
Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.

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Proverbs 26:3
A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools!

Jeremiah 31:18
“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned, for you are Yahweh my God.

James 4:7
Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

James 4:8
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

James 4:9
Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.

James 4:10
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

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Acts 5:36
For before these days Theudas rose up, making himself out to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves. He was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were dispersed and came to nothing.

Romans 2:8
but to those who are self-seeking and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation,

Romans 9:22
What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

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Hebrews 13:17
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

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James 3:13
Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.

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Isaiah 8:20
Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

Jeremiah 23:22
But if they had stood in my council, then they would have caused my people to hear my words, and would have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

1 Peter 4:11
If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

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2 Peter 1:6
and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control, perseverance; and in perseverance, godliness;

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Revelation 14:20
The wine press was trodden outside of the city, and blood came out of the wine press, up to the bridles of the horses, as far as one thousand six hundred stadia.

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