Jam 3:4-8, 2Pe 2:7, 18, Jude 10, 13 | ESV | STEP | Look at the ships also : though they are so large and are driven by strong winds , they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs .

James 3:4-8

4 Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. 5 So also the tongue is a small member, yet ^ait boasts of great things.

How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! 6 And ^bthe tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, ^cstaining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, ^{▼▼Or wheel of birth} and set on fire by hell. ^{▼▼Greek Gehenna} 7 For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, 8 but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, ^ffull of deadly poison.

2 Peter 2:7

7 and ^gif he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked

2 Peter 2:18

18 For, ^hspeaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely ⁱescaping from those who live in error.

Jude 10

10 ^jBut these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively.

Jude 13

13 ^kwild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of ^ltheir own shame; ^mwandering stars, ⁿfor whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.