The document discusses how the tongue can do great harm if it is lying, cursing, backbiting, or proud. It notes that lying tongues come from Satan and can hurt relationships or even cause death. Cursing tongues improperly use God's name or condemn things God has made. Backbiting tongues spread strife and gossip. Proud tongues believe their own words prevail over all others. In sum, the tongue must be restrained and bridled to avoid sinful speech and keep religion meaningful.

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Tongue: Good / Bad
The tongue can do great evil.
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Introduction
 The tongue can accomplish great good
 It can also do tremendous harm
 Proverbs 4:24 – Put away from you a
deceitful mouth, and put perverse lips
far from you.
 Froward (KJV) means – perverse,
crooked, warped, not normal
 James 3 – We must tame the tongue
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The Tongue Can Do
Great Harm If It Is A:
 Lying Tongue
 Psalm 52:2-4 – 2 Your tongue devises
destruction, Like a sharp razor, working
deceitfully. 3 You love evil more than
good, Lying rather than speaking
righteousness. 4 You love all devouring
words, You deceitful tongue.
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The Tongue Can Do
Great Harm If It Is A:
 Lying Tongue
 Source of Lies is Satan
 John 8:44 - You are of your father the devil,
and the desires of your father you want to
do. He was a murderer from the beginning,
and does not stand in the truth, because
there is no truth in him. When he speaks a
lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he
is a liar and the father of it.
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The Tongue Can Do
Great Harm If It Is A:
 Lying Tongue
 Consequences – hurt, pain, broken
relationships, death
 God hates a lying tongue – Proverbs
6:16-19
 Attitude – Ephesians 4:25 - Therefore,
putting away lying, “Let each one of you
speak truth with his neighbor,” for we
are members of one another.
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The Tongue Can Do
Great Harm If It Is A:
 Cursing Tongue
 This is done in two ways
– 1) Using God’s name in vain
– Exodus 20:7 - “You shall not take the
name of the LORD your God in vain, for
the LORD will not hold him guiltless who
takes His name in vain.
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The Tongue Can Do
Great Harm If It Is A:
 Cursing Tongue
 This is done in two ways
– 1) Using God’s name in vain
– 2) Condemn something God has made
– Matthew 5:22 - But I say to you that
whoever is angry with his brother without a
cause shall be in danger of the judgment.
And whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’
shall be in danger of the council. But
whoever says, ‘You fool!’ shall be in
danger of hell fire.
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The Tongue Can Do
Great Harm If It Is A:
 Cursing Tongue
 This is done in two ways
– 1) Using God’s name in vain
– 2) Condemn something God has made
– James 3:8-10 - 8But no man can tame the
tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
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With it we bless our God and Father, and with it
we curse men, who have been made in the
similitude of God. 10Out of the same mouth
proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren,
these things ought not to be so.
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The Tongue Can Do
Great Harm If It Is A:
 Backbiting Tongue
 Proverbs 26:20-22 – 20 Where there is
no wood, the fire goes out; And where
there is no talebearer, strife ceases. 21
As charcoal is to burning coals, and
wood to fire, So is a contentious man to
kindle strife. 22 The words of a talebearer
are like tasty trifles, And they go down
into the inmost body.
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The Tongue Can Do
Great Harm If It Is A:
 Backbiting Tongue
 James 4:11 – Do not speak evil of one
another, brethren. He who speaks evil
of a brother and judges his brother,
speaks evil of the law and judges the
law. But if you judge the law, you are
not a doer of the law but a judge.
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The Tongue Can Do
Great Harm If It Is A:
 Backbiting Tongue
 Romans 1:29-30 - 29being filled with all
unrighteousness, sexual immorality,
wickedness, covetousness,
maliciousness; full of envy, murder,
strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are
whisperers, 30backbiters, haters of
God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors
of evil things, disobedient to parents,
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The Tongue Can Do
Great Harm If It Is A:
 Proud Tongue
 Psalm 12:3-4 – May the LORD cut off all 3
flattering lips, And the tongue that speaks
proud things, 4 Who have said, “With our
tongue we will prevail; Our lips are our own;
Who is lord over us?”
 Proverbs 13:3 - He who guards his mouth
preserves his life, But he who opens wide his
lips shall have destruction.
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Summary – 3 Verses
 Proverbs 10:19 - In the multitude of words
sin is not lacking, But he who restrains his
lips is wise.
 Proverbs 15:28 - The heart of the righteous
studies how to answer, But the mouth of the
wicked pours forth evil.
 James 1:26 - If anyone among you thinks he
is religious, and does not bridle his tongue
but deceives his own heart, this one’s
religion is useless.
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