Watch Your Words

Then Job answered and said: “How long will you torment my soul, and break me in pieces with words? These ten times you have reproached me; You are not ashamed that you have wronged me.”Job 19:1-3 (NKJV)

Proverbs 18:21 says, death and life are in the power of the tongue. In Genesis 27:33 (NLT), after Isaac had mistakenly blessed Jacob, he told Esau that the blessing must stand! Our words are powerful. When we cut people with our words, we may go back and apologize, but the damage has already been done. There is one who speaks like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise promotes health. (Proverbs 12:18 NKJV) Do you see a man hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him. (Proverbs 29:20 NKJV) May we be slow to speak and carefully choose our words. Let us speak wise words, those of life, love, peace, and blessing. Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweet and delightful to the soul and healing to the body. (Proverbs 16:24 AMP) 

In Exodus 4:12 (NLT), the LORD said to Moses: “Now go! I will be with you as you speak, and I will instruct you in what to say.” Yahweh is with us and will instruct us in our speech. Yield your tongue to His Holy Spirit within you. Whoever guards his mouth and tongue keeps his soul from troubles. (Proverbs 21:23 NKJV)

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