6And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
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Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue. …
An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. …
And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. …
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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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