Bible Encyclopedia: Deceit: The Tongue, the Instrument of

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Ninth Commandment
... Truth will spring from a good heart: falsehood and deceit from a corrupt heart. ... The
tongue can be an instrument of untold good or incalculable evil. ...
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Upon the Government of the Tongue.
... may use the faculty of speech as an instrument of false ... As to the former: deceit
in the management of ... The government of the tongue, considered as a subject of ...
//christianbookshelf.org/butler/human nature/sermon iv upon the government.htm

Whether the Manner and Order of the First Temptation was Fitting?
... temptation; but as he was possessed of the lust of deceit, he could ... in it: thus,
we speak of a prudent or cunning tongue, because it is the instrument of a ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the manner and order.htm

The Folly of Slander. Part 2.
... givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. ... all devouring words, O thou
deceitful tongue:" and, "A ... that is, he is a complicated instrument of all ...
/.../barrow/sermons on evil-speaking by isaac barrow/the folly of slander part 2.htm

On all the Saints.
... Knowing, therefore, the feebleness of tongue proper to me, I should ... to use as the
ready weapon of his deceit, has become the mighty instrument of his ...
/.../dubious or spurious writings of gregory thaumaturgus/on all the saints.htm

The Eighth Book Very Notably Overthrows the Blasphemy of The
... begotten, He was not," ready upon his tongue for the ... is Himself from nothing, and
since the deceit obtains much ... being made, so to say, the instrument of Him ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/section 1 the eighth book.htm

Refutation of the Gentiles
... find expression through one part only, namely the tongue? ... a body and using a human
instrument to vitalize ... and freed and undeceived them all from every deceit. ...
/.../athanasius/on the incarnation of the word/chapter 7 refutation of the.htm

On the Formation of the Character of Believers, and on Giving of ...
... O God, who art powerful, faithful, and true, and without deceit in Thy ... to confess
withal, and added to it a suitable tongue as an instrument to modulate ...
/.../various/constitutions of the holy apostles/sec ii on the formation of.htm

Slavery of Redemptioners.
... This crying deceit moved some well-disposed German inhabitants ... the magistrate by
a written instrument for a ... in this life; many also forget their mother-tongue. ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/bente/american lutheranism/slavery of redemptioners.htm

On the Ten Points of Doctrine.
... that make spoil through philosophy and vain deceit [643 ... And how the tongue ministers
to two purposes, the sense of ... The body is an instrument, and, as it were, a ...
/.../cyril/lectures of s cyril of jerusalem/lecture iv on the ten.htm

Torrey's Topical Textbook

Romans 3:13
Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
Torrey's Topical Textbook