The tongue

James 3:5-6 

⁵ So too the tongue is a small part of the body, yet it has great pretensions. Think how small a flame sets a huge forest ablaze. ⁶ And the tongue is a fire! The tongue represents the world of wrongdoing among the parts of our bodies. It pollutes the entire body and sets fire to the course of human existence—and is set on fire by hell.

Remember

“Sticks and stones may hurt my bones but words will never hurt me”

Famous last words out of ignorance and its wayward trend

The desire to protect one’s own deeper feelings

will built up this nonsense on a foundation of sand

The tongue is a weapon that often brings destruction

It is an unruly evil and full of deadly poison

It triggers many fires in the course of nature

It cannot be tamed by man ... close or on the horizon

Blessing and cursing proceed out of the same mouth

Is it any wonder that words cannot be trusted?

To know a man in deed is the only way to know him

for to believe in what a person says will quickly get you busted

Jan Wienen