The Tongue: Part Two

Our Bible says a lot about all the wrong ways we can use our tongues. This list sums up the major ways God says – “Don't use your tongues for”: wickedness, deceit, lying, perverseness, filthiness, corruption, bitterness, anger, craftiness, flattery, slander, backbiting, gossip, blaspheming, foolishness, boasting, murmuring, complaining, cursing, contention, sensuality, vileness, tale-bearing, whispering and exaggerating. These are the 25 types of tongues named in the Scriptures.

Is there any hope for taming this thing so dangerous? Yes, in the garden of lives cultivated by God through His Word and in the power of His Spirit we find some wonderful lives with transformed tongues. From the soil of failure and the rocks of defeat under God's care come beautiful and fragrant mouths of wholesome and healing words.

There are many but we need to just concentrate on seven lives who bear the marks of a tamed tongue.