Pictured to the left is a copy of a version of the Holy Bible, known as the New Living Translation ( NLT ). James 1:26, 27 read as follows: "If you claim to be religious but don't control your tongue, you are just fooling yourself, and your religion is worthless. Pure and lasting religion in the sight of God our Father means that we must care for the orphans and widows in their troubles, and refuse to let the world corrupt us." Moreover, Ephesians 4:29 reads as follows: "Don't use foul or abusive language. Let everything you say be good and helpful, so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them."
If we control our tongue, then we will not use foul and abusive language. The phrase "foul and abusive language" in Ephesians 4:29 includes: profanity, euphemisms for profane words, and gossip, for example ( see also Proverbs 11:13 and Colossians 3:8, for example ). Furthermore, Jesus ( see Matthew 15:16 ) said the following in Matthew 15:17-20: "Anything you eat passes through the stomach and then goes out of the body. But evil words come from an evil heart and defile the person who says them. For from the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, all other sexual immorality, theft, lying, and slander. These are what defile you. Eating with unwashed hands could never defile you and make you unacceptable to God!" Jesus said that if we use evil words, we are defiled.
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