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 we all make many stumbles; if any one in word does not stumble, this one is a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body;
3 lo, the bits we put into the mouths of the horses for their obeying us, and their whole body we turn about;4 lo, also the ships, being so great, and by fierce winds being driven, are led about by a very small helm, whithersoever the impulse of the helmsman does counsel,5 so also the tongue is a little member, and does boast greatly; lo, a little fire how much wood it does kindle!6 and the tongue is a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.
7 For every nature, both of beasts and of fowls, both of creeping things and things of the sea, is subdued, and has been subdued, by the human nature,8 and the tongue no one of men is able to subdue, it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison,
9 with it we do bless the God and Father, and with it we do curse the men made according to the similitude of God;10 out of the same mouth does come forth blessing and cursing; it does not need, my brethren, these things so to happen;11 does the fountain out of the same opening pour forth the sweet and the bitter?12 is a fig-tree able, my brethren, olives to make? or a vine figs? so no fountain salt and sweet water is able to make.
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 any one does think to be religious among you, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, of this one vain is the 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 wherefore, also, God did highly exalt him, and gave to him a name that is above every name,10 that in the name of Jesus every knee may bow -- of heavenlies, and earthlies, and what are under the earth --11 and every tongue may confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
1 If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;
36 'And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment;37 for from your words you shall be declared righteous, and from your words you shall be declared unrighteous.'