26If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
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Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
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:
Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-27)In this part of the chapter we are required, I. To restrain the workings of passion. This lesson we should learn under afflictions; and this we shall learn if we are indeed begotten again by the word of truth. For thus the connection stands—An angry and hasty spirit is soon provoked to ill things by afflictions, and errors and ill opinions become prevalent through the workings of our own vile and…
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