Língua
A língua tem poder de vida e de morte. A Bíblia compara a língua ao leme de um navio e à faísca que incendeia uma floresta. Dominar a língua é prova de maturidade espiritual.
O poder da língua
A morte e a vida estão no poder da língua. Quem a domina é varão perfeito, capaz de controlar todo o corpo.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those that love it shall eat its fruit.
For we all offend in many things. If any man offends not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to govern the whole body with restraint.
Behold, we put bits (or restraint) in the horses’ mouths to persuade them, and we govern their whole body.
Behold also the ships, which though they are so great are driven of fierce winds, yet they are governed with a very small rudder, wherever the governor desires.
In the same manner, the tongue is a very small member and boasts of great things. Behold, how great a forest a little fire kindles!
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defiles the whole body and sets on fire the course of our nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
For every nature of beasts and of birds and of serpents and of beings in the sea may be tamed and is tamed by mankind,
but no man can tame the tongue, which is an evil that cannot be restrained and is full of deadly poison.
With it we bless God, even the Father; and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God.
Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so.
Does a fountain send forth at the same place both sweet and bitter water?
Can the fig tree, my brethren, produce olive berries? or the vine, figs? In the same manner no fountain can yield both salt water and fresh.
Palavras sábias
A língua branda quebra até ossos. A palavra certa no tempo certo é como maçãs de ouro em salvas de prata.
By long forbearing a prince is persuaded, and a soft tongue breaks the bones.
There are those that speak like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise is medicine.
The lip of truth shall be established for ever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
In the multitude of words there is no lack of rebellion, but he that refrains his lips is wise.
Even a fool, when he is silent is counted wise, and he that shuts his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
Disciplinar a fala
Quem guarda a boca e a língua guarda a sua alma de angústias. A religião sem controle da língua é vã.
If anyone among you thinks to be religious and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, his religion is vain.
I said, I will take heed to my ways that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bit while the wicked is against me.
Who is the man that desires life and loves many days that he may see good?
Mem
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Nun
The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, and his tongue brings forth judgment.
The law of his God is in his heart; therefore none of his steps shall slide.
Tzaddi
And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.
For the word is not even upon my tongue, and, behold, O Lord, thou dost know it altogether.
Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips and from a deceitful tongue.
The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips and the tongue that speaks proud things:
Who have said, With our tongue we will prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Toda língua confessará
Ao nome de Jesus todo joelho se dobrará e toda língua confessará que Jesus Cristo é Senhor, para glória de Deus Pai.
Therefore, God also has highly exalted him and given him a name which is above every name,
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth,
and that every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is Lord in the glory of God the Father.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of the man built.
And the Lord said, Behold, the people are one, and they all have one language; and they begin to do this, and now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do.
Now, let us go down and there confound their language that they may not understand one another’s speech.
So the Lord scattered them abroad from there upon the face of all the earth, and they left off to build the city.
Therefore the name of it was called Babel because there the Lord confounded the language of all the earth, and from there the Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
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