2For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
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:
For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)The foregoing chapter shows how unprofitable and dead faith is without works. It is plainly intimated by what this chapter first goes upon that such a faith is, however, apt to make men conceited and magisterial in their tempers and their talk. Those who set up faith in the manner the former chapter condemns are most apt to run into those sins of the tongue which this chapter condemns. And indeed…
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