How many times have you said something and then immediately wanted to take back what you said? Unfortunately, there is no delete key for spoken words. Often, it happens in moments of passion and emotion where we let our words get ahead of our brain and we wish we could be anywhere else in the world. Our tongues can be so useful and helpful. We can educate, instruct, entertain, uplift, encourage and help people with our words. We can also insult, condemn, put down, hurt, lie, discourage and injure people with our words which come out of the same mouth as the good words. The tongue can be a mighty weapon which can be used for good or bad and the consequences, both good and bad, sometimes far exceed the initial intent of the words. Two other points need to be made before we go into the Bible verses. First, there are times when words need to be used as a weapon. Secondly, the hearer of the words has a responsibility to have grace and understa...
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