{"id":3350,"date":"2015-08-25T10:31:15","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T14:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/?p=3350"},"modified":"2015-08-25T10:31:15","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T14:31:15","slug":"the-positive-power-of-the-tongue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/2015\/08\/25\/the-positive-power-of-the-tongue\/","title":{"rendered":"The Positive Power Of The Tongue"},"content":{"rendered":"

“<\/em>In James 3, we read of the damage that “little member” – the tongue – can do. Reading today’s Proverb, however, contained several reminders of the positive effect our\u00a0tongue can have. Below is just one of those reminders:<\/p>\n

“By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.” Proverbs 25:15\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Matthew Henry’s comments on the above verse are as follows:<\/p>\n

“Two things are here recommended to us, in dealing with others, as likely means to gain our point:– 1. Patience<\/span>, to bear a present heat without being put into a heat by it, and to wait<\/span> for a fit opportunity to offer our reasons and to give persons time to consider them. By this means even a prince<\/i> may be persuaded<\/i> to do a thing which he seemed very averse to, much more a common person. That which is justice and reason now will be so another time, and therefore we need not urge them with violence now, but wait<\/span> for a more convenient season. 2. Mildness<\/span>, to speak without passion or provocation: A soft tongue<\/span> breaks the bone;<\/i> it mollifies the roughest spirits and overcomes those that are most morose, like lightning, which, they say, has sometimes broken the bone, and yet not pierced the flesh. Gideon with a soft tongue pacified the Ephraimites and Abigail turned away David’s wrath. Hard words,<\/i> we say, break no bones,<\/i> and therefore we should bear them patiently; but, it seems, soft words<\/i> do, and therefore we should, on all occasions, give them prudently.” ~ Matthew Henry<\/p>\n

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“In James 3, we read of the damage that “little member” – the tongue – can do. Reading today’s Proverb, however, contained several reminders of the positive effect our\u00a0tongue can have. Below is just one of those reminders: “By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.” Proverbs 25:15\u00a0 Matthew Henry’s comments on the above verse are as follows: “Two things are here recommended to us, in dealing with others, as likely means to gain our point:– 1. Patience, to bear a present heat without being put into a heat by it, and to wait for a fit opportunity to offer our reasons and to give persons time to consider them. By this means even a prince may be persuaded to do a thing which he seemed very averse to, much more a common person. That which is justice and reason now will be so another time, and therefore we need not urge them with violence now, but wait for a more convenient season. 2. Mildness, to speak without passion or provocation: A soft tongue breaks the bone; it mollifies the roughest spirits and overcomes those that are most morose, like lightning, which, they say, has sometimes broken the bone, and yet not pierced the flesh. Gideon with a soft tongue pacified the Ephraimites and Abigail turned away David’s wrath. Hard words, we say, break no bones, and therefore we should bear them patiently; but, it seems, soft words do, and therefore we should, on all occasions, give them prudently.” ~ Matthew Henry  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[46,65,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patience","category-relationships","category-the-tongue"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o6C2-S2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3351,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350\/revisions\/3351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}