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THE GENERAL EPISTLE OF
JAMES
CHAPTER 3
  6 And the atongue 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.

Footnotes
6a
Prov. 16: 27.
  27 An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning afire.
Mark 7: 20 (19-23).
  20 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that adefileth the man.
Alma 12: 14.
  14 For our awords will condemn us, yea, all our works will condemn us; we shall not be found spotless; and our thoughts will also condemn us; and in this awful state we shall not dare to look up to our God; and we would fain be glad if we could command the rocks and the bmountains to fall upon us to chide us from his presence.
D&C 88: 121.
  121 Therefore, acease from all your light speeches, from all blaughter, from all your clustful desires, from all your dpride and light-mindedness, and from all your wicked doings.