The power of life and DEATH is in the tongue:
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it SHALL EAT THE FRUIT thereof.[/list:u]
And we are told that we can “
taste� of death:
Mark 9:1 That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not
taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power. [/list:u]
How can we 'taste' of death if we don't KNOW that we are 'dead'? The dead know not anything. :shock: So do we KNOW that we are dead or 'taste' death before we are brought to judgment? And our TONGUES are "set on fire of hell"? :?:
We
condemn ourselves by those things which we PROFESS “out of our own mouths�... All these things are found in ‘the tongue’….
iniquity, boastings, deceit, lies, foolishness, etc.
iniquity in my tongue?
cannot my TASTE discern perverse things?
Pro 15:2 The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright:
but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.
Psalm 52:4 Thou lovest all
devouring words, O thou
deceitful tongue Psalm 120:2-3
Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a
deceitful tongue. What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou
false tongue?
Psa 109:2 For
the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me
with a lying tongue.
Jer 9:8
Their TONGUE is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth,
but in heart he layeth his wait.
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.
Rev 3:17 Because
thou SAYEST, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing;
and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.[/list:u]
But NO MAN can ‘tame the tongue’….
the tongue can no man tame; it is an UNRULY EVIL, full of DEADLY poison. (how bout those arrows?? :shock: )[/list:u]
It is by our ‘fruits’ that we are to be known…. And we will ‘eat’ the fruit of our TONGUE (words) if we don’t “cut it out�. (If thy hand or foot – how about that TONGUE? – offend thee……)
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. [/list:u]
But it WILL be tamed :wink: even CUT OUT!! :shock:
The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue
shall be cut out. [/list:u]
Man may not be able to tame the tongue, but the Lord can…
1Peter 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:Prov 21:23
Whoso keepeth his MOUTH and his TONGUE keepeth his soul from troubles.
James 3:2 For in many things we offend all.
If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and
able also to bridle the whole body. (The bridle goes in the MOUTH! :shock: )
1Peter 2:1 Wherefore
laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil SPEAKINGS,
Rev 14:5 And
in their mouth was found NO GUILE: for
they are without fault before the throne of God. Psa 39:1 <To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.> I said, I will take heed to my ways, that
I sin not with my tongue:
I will keep my MOUTH with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.[/list:u]
Even God's WORD has gone out of his MOUTH... and there is NO LIE... and it will NOT return VOID.
Isa 45:23 I have sworn by myself,
the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return,
That unto me every knee shall bow, every TONGUE shall swear.
Rom 14:11 For it is written, As I live,
saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every
tongue shall confess to God.
Phi 2:11 And that every
tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father. [/list:u]
Talk about the power of life and death being in the tongue…
if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. [/list:u]
The tongue seems to be what is ‘set on fire of hell’ (wasn’t that the case with Lazarus?)
the tongue is a little member, and
boasteth great things. Behold,
how great a matter a little fire kindleth! the tongue is a FIRE, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and
it is set on fire OF HELL.
Luk 19:22 And he saith unto him,
Out of thine own MOUTH will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow:[/list:u]
There is so much more... and I see that you have been looking at it... I hope that I didn't repost all of the same verse that you did. I didn't 'check' first. :oops:
Chrissie