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19 When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent.
Guard Your Tongue!
Guard Your Tongue!
Proverbs 10:19 (ESV)
19 When words are many, transgression is not lacking,...
I pray here often...
Folks with a Choleric personality, especially with the Spiritual gift being prophecy really struggle here. I own this and repent here regularly.
Proverbs 10:20–21 (ESV)
20 The tongue of the righteous is choice silver; the heart of the wicked is of little worth.
21 The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of sense.
In company, guard your tongue—in solitude, your thoughts.
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This quote may come from an unknown origin, but it stands a very sound and pragmatic understanding of what the Proverb is communicating.
5 So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire!
36 I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak,
37 for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
Biting the Tongue Can Be Good!
Biting the Tongue Can Be Good!
Proverbs 10:19 (ESV)
19 “...but whoever restrains his lips is prudent.”
27 Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.
2 For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.
1 Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.
Use Your Words for Glory— His Alone!
Use Your Words for Glory— His Alone!
20 The tongue of the righteous is choice silver; the heart of the wicked is of little worth.
21 The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of sense.
If I love my Lord I have no business to be guided by natural temperament; I have to feed His sheep. There is no relief and no release from this commission.
11985 Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words … soothe, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.
Blaise Pascal (French Scientist, Polemicist and Christian Apologist)
Walking Away, But In...
Walking Away, But In...
Speak Little!
Speak Well!
Let Your words bring praise to Him!
