James 3:6

Verse 6. And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity.

The ungoverned tongue, by the pernicious influences it wields among mankind, is as great as a fire in the forest. It is, therefore, properly comparable to a fire. It is a fire; more, it is a world of iniquity, a great volume, for it works a collection, a multitude, of wrongs.

So is the tongue among our members.

Placed as it is among the other members of the body, with the mighty influences it exerts, it defiles or mars, or, as Macknight has it, "spotteth" the whole body, and sets on fire the whole natural frame, which is as it were set on fire of hell. As much as to say that the whole man is so controlled by it, his passions aroused and inflamed to such a degree, that reason and judgment are completely subdued. One so controlled pushes his conduct and all his actions to an extent resulting only in destruction to both soul and body, a most fearful calamity, a most terrible result. What a wonderful power this little member of the human body possesses. How few of earth's sons and daughters realize the power of the tongue.