Jam 3:5-10 | Family | STEP | As everlasting consequences depend upon the use of the tongue, all, and especially ministers of the gospel, should earnestly pray that they may always so speak as shall tend most to honor God and benefit their fellow-men.

‏ James 3:5-10

As everlasting consequences depend upon the use of the tongue, all, and especially ministers of the gospel, should earnestly pray that they may always so speak as shall tend most to honor God and benefit their fellow-men. Is a fire; setting society in a blaze, like fire in dry matter.

Defileth the whole body; when used in spreading moral pollution.

The course of nature; produces universal destruction, like a general conflagration.

It is set on fire of hell; instigated in its destructive courses by infernal spirits. The devil employs some men more than they are aware of; and things which they would start at, should they hear him utter them, they at his suggestion utter for him, and thus do his work and ripen to be companions with him and his angels. Bless we God; thus professing our love for him.

Curse we men; thus showing that our profession of love towards God is empty and insincere. Compare 1Jo 4:20.

Made after the similitude of God; bear his image as rational and immortal beings, and ought therefore to be the objects of our love.