3:1
    [kjv]  My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
    [bbe]  Do not all be teachers, my brothers, because we teachers will be judged more hardly than others.
3:2  
    [kjv]  For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
    [bbe]  For we all go wrong in a number of things. If a man never makes a slip in his talk, then he is a complete man and able to keep all his body in control.
3:3  
    [kjv]  Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
    [bbe]  Now if we put bits of iron into horses' mouths so that they may be guided by us, we have complete control of their bodies.
3:4
    [kjv]  Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.
    [bbe]  And again ships, though they are so great and are moved by violent winds, are turned by a very small guiding-blade, at the impulse of the man who is using it.
3:5
    [kjv]  Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
    [bbe]  Even so the tongue is a small part of the body, but it takes credit for great things. How much wood may be lighted by a very little fire!
3:6  
    [kjv]  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.
    [bbe]  And the tongue is a fire; it is the power of evil placed in our bodies, making all the body unclean, putting the wheel of life on fire, and getting its fire from hell.
3:7
    [kjv]  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:
    [bbe]  For every sort of beast and bird and every living thing on earth and in the sea has been controlled by man and is under his authority;
3:8  
    [kjv]  But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
    [bbe]  But the tongue may not be controlled by man; it is an unresting evil, it is full of the poison of death.
3:9
    [kjv]  Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith ............