Our Tongue Is the Culprit

Our Tongue Is the Culprit

James 1:26 NIV
26 If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue , he deceives himself and his religion is worthless.

James 3:5-10 NIV
5 Likewise the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. 6 The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.
7 All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles and creatures of the sea are being tamed and have been tamed by man, 8 but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 9 With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness. 10 Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be.

1 Peter 3:10 NIV
10 For,
"Whoever would love life
and see good days
must keep his tongue from evil
and his lips from deceitful speech.

Self-Righteousness

Self-Righteousness

Matt 23:25-26 NIV
25 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites ! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.

Matt 23:27-28 NIV
27 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites ! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean. 28 In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

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Prov 20:6 KJV
6 Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?

Prov 21:2 NIV
2 All a man's ways seem right to him,
but the LORD weighs the heart.

Prov 30:12 NIV
12 those who are pure in their own eyes
and yet are not cleansed of their filth;

Job 9:30-31 NIV
30 Even if I washed myself with soap
and my hands with washing soda,
31 you would plunge me into a slime pit
so that even my clothes would detest me.

Isa 57:12 NIV
12 I will expose your righteousness and your works,
and they will not benefit you.

Isa 64:6 NIV
6 All of us have become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags;
we all shrivel up like a leaf,
and like the wind our sins sweep us away.

Luke 16:15 NIV
15 He said to them, "You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of men, but God knows your hearts. What is highly valued among men is detestable in God's sight.

Rom 10:3 NIV
3 Since they did not know the righteousness that comes from God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.