21Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
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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.
A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. …
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise. …
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. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21)Note, 1. A man may do a great deal of good, or a great deal of hurt, both to others and to himself, according to the use he makes of his tongue. Many a one has been his own death by a foul tongue, or the death of others by a false tongue; and, on the contrary, many a one has saved his own life, or procured the comfort of it, by a prudent gentle tongue, and saved the lives of others by a seasonable…
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