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The tongue
The tongue is small and can start a fire. James tells believers to be quick to listen and slow to speak.
1. Song of Solomon 4:11
“Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.”
2. Isaiah 3:8
“For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against Yahweh, to provoke the eyes of his glory.”
3. Psalms 71:24
“My tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day long, for they are disappointed, and they are confounded, who want to harm me.”
4. Psalms 126:2
“Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, “Yahweh has done great things for them.””
5. Jeremiah 9:8
“Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.”
6. Lamentations 4:4
“The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst. The young children ask bread, and no one breaks it for them.”
7. James 1:26
“If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.”
8. Psalms 5:9
“For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.”
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Practice Song of Solomon 4:11
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Yourmybride,driplikethehoneycomb.Honeyandmilkareundertongue.ThesmellofgarmentsislikethesmellofLebanon.