"Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eath the fruit thereof" Proverbs 18:21
"Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!" and "But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison" James 3:5-8
How often have we been guilty of saying... "Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred" Job 6:24? Or "Keep thy (my) tongue from evil, and thy (my) lips from speaking guile (deceit)" Psalms 34:13?
Unfortunately, not very often... if ever. What difference does it make... you may ask? Well, the Psalmist goes on to clarify:
"Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry. The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth" Psalms 34:14-16.
Jesus was just as direct in Matthew 12:37 "For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned."
Condemned! Even remembrance of them cut-off from the earth! That sounds like some pretty serious consequences. Perhaps we would do well to pay a little more attention...
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