Taming the Tongue

3 Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, for you know that we who teach will face stricter judgment.^{(A) 2} For all of us make many mistakes. Anyone who makes no mistakes in speaking is mature,^[a] able to keep the whole body in check with a bridle.^(B)

⁶ And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is placed among our members as a world of iniquity; it stains the whole body, sets on fire the cycle of life, and is itself set on fire by hell.^[a](A)

⁹ With it we bless the Lord^[a] and Father, and with it we curse people, made in the likeness of God.^{(A) 10} From the same mouth comes a blessing and a curse. My brothers and sisters, this ought not to be so.