[BIRDS CHIRPING]
My brethren, be
not many masters, knowing that we shall receive
the greater condemnation. For in many things
we offend all. If any man offend
not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able
also to bridle the whole body. Behold, we put bits
in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we
turn about their whole body.
Behold also the ships, which
though they be so great, and are driven of fierce
winds, yet are they turned about with a very
small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth. Even so the tongue
is a little member, and boasteth great things.
Behold, how great a matter
a little fire kindleth! 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. For every kind of beasts, and
of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is
tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: but the
tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil,
full of deadly poison. Therewith bless we God, even
the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made
after the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth
proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things
ought not so to be.