Bible Cross References
devouring
1 Samuel 22:18
So Saul said to Doeg, "You kill them!"---and Doeg killed them all. On that day he killed eighty-five priests who were qualified to carry the ephod.
1 Samuel 22:19
Saul also had all the other inhabitants of Nob, the city of priests, put to death: men and women, children and babies, cattle, donkeys, and sheep---they were all killed.
James 3:6-9
6
And the tongue is like a fire. It is a world of wrong, occupying its place in our bodies and spreading evil through our whole being. It sets on fire the entire course of our existence with the fire that comes to it from hell itself.
7
We humans are able to tame and have tamed all other creatures---wild animals and birds, reptiles and fish.
8
But no one has ever been able to tame the tongue. It is evil and uncontrollable, full of deadly poison.
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We use it to give thanks to our Lord and Father and also to curse other people, who are created in the likeness of God.