The Biblical warning to tame your tongue seems needed these days. Let’s see what the Words in the Bible say about how to tame your tongue and the consequences of your words.
You should always ensure what comes out of your mouth is in line with God’s Word. When we speak, it’s important to choose words that will lift up and bring joy and hope. Your words can either be rooted in fear and anger or in peace, faith, and love.
Taming your tongue means not giving in to idle words, anger, or fits of rage.
Matthew 12:36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
Matthew 12:37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words, thou shalt be condemned.
Everyone should choose their words when they speak. The mouth is a sign that you’re a Christian or evil person.
If the heart’s full of love and the word of God, then love and gracious words will pour out of it. If the heart is full of anger and bitterness, then anger is what will come forth.
The condition of the heart or inner man will speak love or brag, speak negative words, and partake in gossip.
Matthew 12:35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
The word religion in Greek means your faith or belief, and the word vain in Greek means useless. So the Bible says your belief is useless if you don’t control your mouth.
James 1:26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
So the next time you’re on the internet and bad mouth a person, you’re proving to everyone your not a Christian.
Christian means Christ-like, not like the people in the world.
Colossians 3:8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
Arguing with others about your beliefs is not Christian, and debating is evil, a way of a reprobate, and listed with fornication, wickedness, and murder.
Romans 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Romans 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Romans 1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents.
Causing strife is evil and not Christian. Strife means angry disagreement over fundamental issues.
Phillippians 2:31 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Proverbs 22:10 Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.
James 3:16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
Ephesians 5:4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
We are ambassadors for Christ. The word ambassador means a representative. The word representative means a person who acts and speaks for another.
To sum that up, Christians are to act and speak for Jesus.
2 Corinthians 5:20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.
Ephesians 4:15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
Many people run off their mouths or type on forums but never consider the consequences. The Bible says you will be judged for every word out of your mouth. That would include every word you type.
Let us bridle our tongues and speak to edify each other.
Ephesians 4:29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
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