with very little movement, and to the bit in the mouth of a horse, a small object that controls the whole animal. However, James goes on to say that the tongue is an “unruly evil, full of deadly poison” (James 3:8 KJV). He says that the tongue, being set on fire with the fire of hell, can defile the whole body (James 3:6). Psalms 12:4 (KJV) says, “With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?” It would seem that the same faculty of speech, which is so great a thing,
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