The Power of the Tongue.

Be careful what you speak.

Words are powerful things, they can lift you up or bring you down.  They have the power to give life or destroy.  Be careful what you say whether for good or for bad a it will come back to you.

Matthew 12:36-37  But I say unto you that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account of it in the day of judgement.  For by the words thou shall be justified, and by the words thou shall be condemned.

Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

James 3:5-8  Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things,  Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindles.  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, and it is set on fire of hell.  For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind; but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

We need to be careful how we speak to others and how we speak to ourselves.  We need to learn how to lift each other up and not put down.