James 3:1 That is, a multitude of teachers. Or, Do not many of you become teachers. James 3:2 Or, many times, greatly. James 3:2 Or, restrain, control, hold in check. James 3:6 Or, fire, the world of unrighteousness! The tongue is set among our body-parts as the thing. Jame...
“The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you don’t, life controls you.”– Anthony Robbins “Self-control is strength. Calmness is mastery. You have to get to a point where your mood doesn’t shift based on the...
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible Proverbs 13:3 In-Context 1 A wise child accepts a parent’s discipline; a mocker refuses to listen to correction. 2 Wise words will win you a good meal, but treacherous people have an appetite for violence. 3 Those who control their...
People, particularly your enemies will not know your secret until you tell them. The Bible calls any fellow that uses his mouth to say things that will lead to his downfall a fool. It is foolishness to answer a question you are not asked. Many persons in life have ruined their great fut...
Audio Bible ContextTaming the Tongue1Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly. 2 We all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to control his whole body...
Surely you also are one of Jesus'followers; I can tell by the way you talk. 你真是他们一党的, 你的口音把你露出来了。 The Bible says in Matthew 26: 74,Then Peter began to curse and to swear saying, I do not know the man! 圣经在马太福音26:74说:彼得甚至发咒起誓的说, 我不认得...
The author reflects on the pronouncement of a congregationalist minister at the Holy Trinity church in New York regarding his approval on birth-control. He muses on the book of Genesis in the Bible which forbids what the minister had advocated. He comments that it is bad enough for a clergy...
Beware of allowing a tactless word, rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky. - Anais Nin Add to Favorite List Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife. - Mother Teresa Add to Favorite List Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt. - Barbara Walters Add...
(I’m as) old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth —Jonathan Swift (Made her feel) older than coal —Joseph Wambaugh The old man is like a candle before the wind —Hilda Doolittle An old man, like a spider, can never make love without beating his own death watch —Charle...
He kept it [emotional feeling] rigidly at the back of his mind, like a fruit not ripe enough to eat —H. E. Bates He that has no rule over his own spirit is like a city without walls —The Holy Bible/Proverbs ’Hath’ has been modernized to ‘has.’ ...