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.
2 For in many respects we often stumble. If any man never stumbles in speech, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body as well.
3 When we put bits in the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we control their whole body also.4 Look at the ships too, though they are so large, even when driven by fierce winds they are turned by a very small rudder, wherever the impulse of the helmsman wills.5 So also the tongue is a small member and makes great boasts. Behold, how great a forest is set on fire by a little spark!6 And the tongue is a fire; it is a very world of iniquity among our members, defiling the whole body, and setting on fire the wheel of nature, and is itself set on fire by hell.
7 For while every kind of beast and bird, and of reptiles and sea- creatures are tamable, and actually have been tamed by mankind,8 no man can tame the tongue, restless evil that it is, full of deadly poison.
9 With it we continually bless our Lord and Father, and with it we are accustomed to curse men made in the image of God.10 From out of the same mouth pour forth blessings and cursings! My brothers, this ought not to be so.11 Does a spring pour forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter?12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives; or a grape-vine, figs? No more can salt water yield fresh water.
Palavras sábias
A língua branda quebra até ossos. A palavra certa no tempo certo é como maçãs de ouro em salvas de prata.
Disciplinar a fala
Quem guarda a boca e a língua guarda a sua alma de angústias. A religião sem controle da língua é vã.
26 If a man thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own religion,
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.
9 And for this God highly exalted him, and graciously bestowed upon him the name which is above every name;10 that in the name of Jesus every knee in heaven, on earth, and under the earth should bend,11 and every tongue confess that "Jesus Christ is Lord," to the glory of God the Father.
1 Though I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have no love, I am become a clanging brass, or a clashing cymbal.
36 "I tell you that for every careless word that men speak they shall give account on the day of judgment.37 "For by your words you will each be justified, and by your words be condemned."