James 3:6 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.
7 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:
8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Like fire, the tongue’s sinful words can spread destruction rapidly, or as its accompanying smoke, those words can permeate and ruin everything around it. In its course of nature the tongue’s evil can extend beyond the individual to affect everything in his sphere of influence.Hell conjures up not just the place but the satanic host that will someday inherit it – they use the tongue as a tool for evil. The tongue is a system of iniquity that sets on fire the whole course of life, and is even set on fire by Satan . When He has your tongue, He has you. Verse 6, above, is speaking of the tongue, before we turn it over to the Spirit of God. The taming has nothing to do with domesticating animals or training them to perform. The meaning is control or dominion. Mankind can control every lesser creature, but no one can control his own tongue. Only God, by His power, can tame the tongue. In the verse 8 we see that the tongue is the most difficult thing in the world to tame. In fact, man cannot tame the tongue. Only God can tame the tongue. The only way that any of us can speak pure words is with a heart, mouth, and tongue dedicated to God. Let Jesus wash your heart in the blood of the Lamb and speak pure words from a pure heart.