³⁴ Brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks from the overflow^(A) of the heart.

⁶ And the tongue is a fire. The tongue, a world of unrighteousness, is placed^[a] among our members. It stains the whole body,^(A) sets the course of life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.