18 Like a madman who throws
(A)Firebrands, arrows and death,

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18 Like a maniac shooting
    flaming arrows of death

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18 (A)For wickedness burns like a fire;
It consumes briars and thorns;
It even sets the thickets of the forest aflame
And they roll upward in a column of smoke.

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18 Surely wickedness burns like a fire;(A)
    it consumes briers and thorns,(B)
it sets the forest thickets ablaze,(C)
    so that it rolls upward in a column of smoke.

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And (A)the tongue is a fire, the very world of iniquity; the tongue is set among our members as that which (B)defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our [a]life, and is set on fire by [b](C)hell.

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Footnotes

  1. James 3:6 Or existence, origin
  2. James 3:6 Gr Gehenna

The tongue also is a fire,(A) a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body,(B) sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.(C)

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