Have you ever been in a situation where you find yourself interacting with another person and you can't get a word in edgewise?? Like you have to interrupt them to even be able to speak? Have you ever wondered why people are like that? The tongue is a fiery member. (Jas 3:5-6) When you can control it;you control your whole body. (Jas 3:2) We will be judged for EVERY IDLE WORD ( Matt 12:36)
Having wisdom and listening to the Holy Spirit will tell you when it is time to speak and when things are better left unsaid. So many times we allow ourselves to speak out of anger or unsettled emotion and then we end up saying things that we didn't truly mean.
Knowing when to speak and when to hold your tongue is invaluable wisdom. Knowing what sort of things to speak about and being able to just be; without having to speak.
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.
James 3:8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
1 Peter 3:10 | For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
Ecclesiasticus 19:6“He that can rule his tongue shall live without strife; and he that hateth babbling shall have less evil.”7 Rehearse not unto another that which is told unto thee, and thou shalt fare never the worse.8 Whether it be to friend or foe, talk not of other men's lives; and if thou canst without offence, reveal them not.9 For he heard and observed thee, and when time cometh he will hate thee.10 If thou hast heard a word, let it die with thee; and be bold, it will not burst thee.
Proverbs 17:9 He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
Romans1: 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Proverbs 13:3 - He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: [but] he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
1 Thessalonians 4:11 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; 12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and [that] ye may have lack of nothing.
2 Peter 3:11 “Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,”
1 Thessalonians 4:11 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; 12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and [that] ye may have lack of nothing.
2 Peter 3:11 “Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,”
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