Bible Dictionary: Our Tongue

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James 1:26
If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
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Proverbs 15:4
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
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James 3:5-10
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindles!
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Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
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Library

Psalm CXXVI.
... 3. "Then was our mouth filled with joy, and our tongue with exultation" (ver.2).
That mouth, brethren, which we have in our body, how is it "filled with joy"? ...
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How the Will Variously Governs the Powers of the Soul.
... We open and shut our mouth, move our tongue, our hands, feet, eyes, and all the
members to which the power of this movement refers without resistance ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter ii how the will.htm

Psalm XII.
... 5. "Who have said, We will magnify our tongue, our lips are our own, who is Lord
over us?" (ver.4). Proud hypocrites are meant, putting confidence in their ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm xii.htm

Of the Transfiguration of Christ on Mount Thabor
... and John followed Him on to mount Thabor. Thabor means in our tongue an increase
of light. So soon as we are like Peter in knowledge ...
/.../the adornment of the spritual marriage/chapter xii of the transfiguration.htm

The Tongue.
... 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 ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/robertson/sermons preached at brighton/i the tongue.htm

Psalm CXXXVII.
... That is our tongue, the song of Jerusalem. The song of the love of this world is
a strange tongue, a barbarous tongue, which we have learnt in our captivity. ...
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He.
... [5168] ...But the Apostle saith, "Avarice is a root of all evils." [5169] But in
the Greek, whence these words have been rendered into our tongue, the word ...
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Letter Lxi. To vigilantius.
... Eusebius of Vercellæ, who witnessed a like confession, must also be held in fault;
for he has translated into our tongue the Commentaries upon all the Psalms ...
/.../jerome/the principal works of st jerome/letter lxi to vigilantius.htm

On the Third Precept of the Decalogue
... things. IV. "To assume" or "to take the name of God," properly, to take that
word into our mouth and pronounce it with our tongue. If ...
/.../arminius/the works of james arminius vol 2/disputation lxxvi on the third.htm

That we have not Naturally the Power to Love God Above all Things.
... But above all I wonder at the poor good man Epictetus, whose words and sentences
are so sweet in our tongue, in the translation which the learned and agreeable ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter xvii that we have.htm

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