Taming the Tongue - book of James

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James 3:1-12

1 Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly. 2 We all stumble in many ways. Anyone who is never at fault in what they say is perfect, able to keep their whole body in check.
3 When we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we can turn the whole animal. 4 Or take ships as an example. Although they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot wants to go. 5 Likewise, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. 6 The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.

7 All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles and sea creatures are being tamed and have been tamed by mankind, 8 but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

9 With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings, who have been made in God’s likeness. 10 Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this should not be. 11 Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring? 12 My brothers and sisters, can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.


 
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jimsun

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Hi Biggiestomp; Nice to meet you.
Don't know how relevant this is.
A while ago I attended a work training session.
@ one class 4 members were given 4 statements to amend, using only punctuation - No words.
Simply by putting full-stops, commas, colons, etc. in different places, we were presented with statements entirely different from one another!
("It ain't what ya say it's the way that ya say it ..."!)
J.
 

damombomb

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Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tounge
 
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The scripture has much to say about taming the tongue, or controlling our speech. In James 1:19 we find "So then, my beloved brethren. Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath, slow to wrath:" If you look in Proverb 25:11 we find -"A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings silver." We see in Proverbs 15:23- " A man has joy by the answer of his mouth. And a word spoken in due season, how good it is!"
 
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The scripture has much to say about taming the tongue, or controlling our speech. In James 1:19 we find "So then, my beloved brethren. Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath, slow to wrath:" If you look in Proverb 25:11 we find -"A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings silver." We see in Proverbs 15:23- " A man has joy by the answer of his mouth. And a word spoken in due season, how good it is!"

A TONGUE WITHOUT A GUARD UPON IT IS LIKE A CITY WITHOUT A WALL- WE CAN EXAMINE WHAT GOES INTO OUR MOUTHS, AND WHY NOT WHAT COMES OUT OF THEM AS WELL?