James 3:3

WEB

³Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.

KJV

³Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.

BSB

³When we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we can guide the whole animal.

FBV

³We put bridles into the mouths of horses so that they'll obey us, and we can direct them wherever we want.

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Extra References

Psalms 32:9

⁹Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.

Psalms 39:1

¹I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”

James 1:26

²⁶If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

²⁸Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.’

Isaiah 37:29

²⁹Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.