ACV(i)
1 Not many should become teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive greater judgment.
2 For we all stumble in many things. If any man does not stumble in word, this is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.
3 Behold we put bits into the mouths of horses for them to obey us, and we guide about their whole body.
4 Behold also the ships, being so great and driven by fierce winds, are guided about by a very small rudder, wherever the impulse of the man who steers determines.
5 So also the tongue is a little body-part, and boasts greatly. Behold a little fire, how much wood it kindles.
6 And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Thus, the tongue is made to lead among our body-parts, defiling the whole body, and setting the cycle of nature on fire, and being set on fire by hell.
7 For every species, both of beasts and of birds, both of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by the human species.
8 But no man is able to tame the tongue of men, an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
9 By it we bless the God and Father, and by it we curse men, who were made according to a likeness of God.
10 Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and curse. My brothers, these things ought not to happen this way.