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When You Open Your Mouth

3Don't be in any rush to become a teacher, my friends. Teaching is highly responsible work. Teachers are held to the strictest standards.G3450G80G1096G3361G4183G1320G1492G3754G2983G3187G2917 2And none of us is perfectly qualified. We get it wrong nearly every time we open our mouths. If you could find someone whose speech was perfectly true, you'd have a perfect person, in perfect control of life.G1063G4183G4417G537G1536G4417G3756G1722G3056G3778G5046G435G1415G2532G5468G3650G4983 3A bit in the mouth of a horse controls the whole horse.G2400G906G5469G1519G2462G4750G4314G846G3982G2254G2532G3329G846G3650G4983 4A small rudder on a huge ship in the hands of a skilled captain sets a course in the face of the strongest winds.G2400G2532G4143G5607G5082G2532G1643G5259G4642G417G3329G5259G1646G4079G3699G302G2116G3730G1014 5A word out of your mouth may seem of no account, but it can accomplish nearly anything—or destroy it! It only takes a spark, remember, to set off a forest fire.G2532G3779G1100G2076G3398G3196G2532G3166G2400G2245G5208G3641G4442G381 6A careless or wrongly placed word out of your mouth can do that. By our speech we can ruin the world, turn harmony to chaos, throw mud on a reputation, send the whole world up in smoke and go up in smoke with it, smoke right from the pit of hell.G2532G1100G4442G2889G93G3779G2525G1100G1722G2257G3196G4695G3650G4983G2532G5394G5164G1078G2532G5394G5259G1067 7This is scary: You can tame a tiger,G1063G3956G5449G2342G5037G2532G4071G5037G2062G2532G1724G1150G2532G1150G5449G442 8but you can't tame a tongue—it's never been done. The tongue runs wild, a wanton killer.G1161G1100G1410G3762G444G1150G183G2556G3324G2287G2447 9With our tongues we bless God our Father; with the same tongues we curse the very men and women he made in his image.G1722G846G2127G2316G2532G3962G2532G1722G846G2672G444G3588G1096G2596G3669G2316 10Curses and blessings out of the same mouth! My friends, this can't go on.G1537G846G4750G1831G2129G2532G2671G3450G80G5023G5534G3756G3779G1096 11A spring doesn't gush fresh water one day and brackish the next, does it?G3385G4077G1032G1537G846G3692G1099G2532G4089 12Apple trees don't bear strawberries, do they? Raspberry bushes don't bear apples, do they? You're not going to dip into a polluted mud hole and get a cup of clear, cool water, are you?G3361G1410G4808G3450G80G4160G1636G2228G288G4810G3779G3762G4077G4160G252G5204G2532G1099

Live Well, Live Wisely

13Do you want to be counted wise, to build a reputation for wisdom? Here's what you do: Live well, live wisely, live humbly. It's the way you live, not the way you talk, that counts.G5101G4680G2532G1990G1722G5213G1166G1537G2570G391G846G2041G1722G4240G4678 14Mean-spirited ambition isn't wisdom. Boasting that you are wise isn't wisdom. Twisting the truth to make yourselves sound wise isn't wisdom.G1161G1487G2192G4089G2205G2532G2052G1722G5216G2588G2620G3361G2532G5574G2596G225 15It's the furthest thing from wisdom—it's animal cunning, devilish conniving.G3778G4678G2076G2718G3756G509G235G1919G5591G1141 16Whenever you're trying to look better than others or get the better of others, things fall apart and everyone ends up at the others' throats.G1063G3699G2205G2532G2052G1563G181G2532G3956G5337G4229 17Real wisdom, God's wisdom, begins with a holy life and is characterized by getting along with others. It is gentle and reasonable, overflowing with mercy and blessings, not hot one day and cold the next, not two-faced.G1161G4678G509G2076G4412G3303G53G1899G1516G1933G2138G3324G1656G2532G18G2590G87G2532G505 18You can develop a healthy, robust community that lives right with God and enjoy its results only if you do the hard work of getting along with each other, treating each other with dignity and honor.G1161G2590G1343G4687G1722G1515G4160G1515


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