This Months March B&B Bible Studies: The Sins of the Tongue

Sins of the Tongue

Everyone could play into these, but as you read there will be some you find you fall into easier & more often than others. I have put the list on my refrigerator to keep me aware. There are spaces at the bottom for ones we have not thought of.

Boastful

Arrogant

Judgmental

Condemning

Condoning

Patronize

Opinionated

All Knowing (better than another.) aside from Biblical truths

Gossip

Slander

Spreading detailed concerns (of others)

Grumbling

Complaining

Greedy (I want)

Covetousness

Self-serving (me-me-me)

Beggarly

Destitute

Impoverish

Negative

Cursing (others & ourselves)

Coarse Jesting

To get attention

To get sympathy

Playing the Holy Spirit (for another’s walk)

Shouting

Demanding

Angry

Degrading

Unkind responses

Unloving response

Lacking Grace

Deceit

Lying

Backbiting

Strife

Flattery

Manipulative

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Job 15:5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth, And you choose the tongue of the crafty.


Psalm 5:9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; Their inward part is destruction; Their throat is an open tomb; They flatter with their tongue.


Psalm 12:3May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, And the tongue that speaks proud things,


Psalm 39:1 “I will guard my ways, Lest I sin with my tongue; I will restrain my mouth with a muzzle, While the wicked are before me.”


Psalm 64:3Who sharpen their tongue like a sword, And bend their bows to shoot their arrows—bitter words,


Romans 3:13“Their throat is an open tomb; With their tongues they have practiced deceit”; “The poison of asps is under their lips”;




What does Proverbs say about a good tongue?

Read: Proverbs: 10:20,31; 12:18.19; 15:2,4; 18:21; 31:26



The Untamable Tongue: James 3:1-12

3:1 My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment. 2 For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body. 3 Indeed, we put bits in horses’ mouths that they may obey us, and we turn their whole body. 4 Look also at ships: although they are so large and are driven by fierce winds, they are turned by a very small rudder wherever the pilot desires. 5 Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things.

See how great a forest a little fire kindles! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell. 7 For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and creature of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind. 8 But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. 9 With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God. 10 Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so. 11 Does a spring send forth fresh water and bitter from the same opening? 12 Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh.




Psalm 45:1 the tongue is the pen of a ready writer


Matthew 12:36 36 But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.




Examples of Healthy topic for discussion: Scripture, confessions, Christian Testimonies, animals, domestic & wild, puzzles, plants, weather, crafts, projects, food & recipes, good traits of others, etc.

If you cant say anything nice,  don't say anything at all. 






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