A Biting Tongue
“For he that will love life, and see good days, let
him refrain his tongue from evil” (1 Peter 3:10).
My mother used to tell me to bite my tongue. She did not mean this in a literal sense of course. Maybe the following statement sums it up in a rather pointed way: “It is better to bite your tongue than to have a biting tongue.”
Here are some Scriptures that back this up:
“Who shall dwell in Thy holy hill? He that backbiteth not with his tongue” (Psalm 15:1,3).
“But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another” (Galatians 5:15).
“If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain” (James 1:26).
“Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law” (James 4:11).
Let’s be like David, who said, “And my tongue shall speak of Thy righteousness and of Thy praise all the day long” (Psalm 35:28).
