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| What does the ninth commandment forbid? |
| "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor." Ex. 20:16. |
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| How is such a man regarded? |
"If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body." James 3:2. |
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| To what double use is the tongue put? |
"Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be." James 3:10. |
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| Can man, un-renewed by grace, control his tongue? |
| "For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil; full of deadly poison." James 3:7, 8. |
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| What is one's duty , under the circumstances? |
| "Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin; but yield yourselves unto God." Rom. 6:13. |
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| Through whom may we find deliverance from this law of sin in our members? |
| "But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am I who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord." Rom. 7:23-25. |
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| Of what are one's words the index? |
"Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh." Matt. 12:34. |
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| What will our words have to do with our standing in the judgment? |
"For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned." Matt. 12:37. |
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| What special sin is covered by the ninth commandment? |
| "Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people; neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbor: I am the Lord." Lev. 19:16. |
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| What are the words of a talebearer like? |
"The words of a talebearer are as wounds." Prov. 26:22. |
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| What is their effect? |
| "He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends." Prov. 17:9. |
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| What would follow if each attended to his own affairs only? |
| "Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth." Prov. 26:20. |
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| What is the word like which is fitly spoken? |
| "A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver." Prov. 25:11. |
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| To whom are our words all known? |
| "For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether." Ps. 139:4. |
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