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Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
¶ Death and life [are] in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
And they bend their tongues [like] their bow [for] lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
Their tongue [is as] an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: [one] speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
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.
¶ There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise [is] health.
¶ The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.
I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?
And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.
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