God's Advice When We Need to Control Our Tongue

Thought for Today - May 26

God's Advice  When We Need to Control Our  Tongue

By: Robert A. Searles

"I said I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked be before me." Psalm 39: 1

"He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander is a fool.  In the multitude of words, there wanteth  not sin:  But he that refraineth his lips is wise The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is  of little worth.  The lip of the righteous feed many; but fools die for want of wisdom" Psalm 10: 18-21

"Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man, but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man." Math 15: 11

"My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.  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.   Behold, we put bits in the horses mouth that they may obey us, and we turn about their whole body.  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 even so , the tongue is a little member and bosteth great things.  Behold, how great a matter a littled fire kindleth and the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity; so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and it is set on fire the  course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.  For every kind of  beast; and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind, but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.   Therewith  bless we God, even the Father, and therewith, curse we men, which are made after tue similitude of God.  Out of the same mouth proceed blessings and cursing.  My brethren these things ought not to be.  Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?  Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries?  Either a vine, figs?   So can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh." James3: 1-12

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