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.
21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they that love it will eat its fruit.
Palavras sábias
A língua branda quebra até ossos. A palavra certa no tempo certo é como maçãs de ouro em salvas de prata.
15 By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh bones.
18 There is some one that useth words which are like the thrusts of a sword; but the tongue of the wise is healing.
19 The lip of truth will stand firm for ever; but only for a moment the tongue of falsehood.
19 In a multitude of words transgression cannot be avoided; but he that refraineth his lips is intelligent.
28 Even a fool, when he keepeth silence, is counted wise: he that shutteth 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.
1 To the chief musician, to Jeduthun, a psalm of David.(39:2) I said, I will guard my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will guard my mouth with a muzzle, while the wicked is before me.
12 (34:13) Who is the man that desireth life, loveth many days, that he may see happiness?13 (34:14) Guard thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking deceit.
30 The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom, and his tongue speaketh what is just.31 The law of his God is in his heart: none of his steps shall slip.
28 And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness, all the day of thy praise.
4 For, while there is not a word on my tongue, lo, thou, O Lord, knowest it entirely.
2 O Lord, deliver my soul from lips of falsehood, and from a tongue of deceit.
3 (12:4) May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaketh boastful things:4 (12:5) Who have said, With our tongue will we be mighty; our lips are with us; who is Lord over us!
9 (55:10) Destroy, O Lord, divide their tongue; 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.
5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man were building.6 And the Lord said, Behold, it is one people, and they have all one language, and this is the first thing they undertake to do; and now shall they not be restrained in all which they have imagined to do?7 Go to, let us go down, and confound there their language, that they may not understand one anothers speech.8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth; and they left off to build the city.9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel, because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth; and from there did the Lord scatter them abroad over the face of all the earth.