8But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
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Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.
And 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.
My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
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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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