2. James 3:5b-12(ESV)
How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell. 7 For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind,8 but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 9 With it we bless our Lord and

3. James 3:5b-12(ESV)
Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. 10 From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. 11 Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? 12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water.

5. Ephesians 4:29-32(ESV)
29 Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. 32 Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God forgave you.

7. God did not make this person as I would have made him
God did not make this person as I would have made him. He did not give him to me as a brother for me to dominate and control, but in order that I might find above him the creator. Now the other person, in the freedom with which he was created, becomes the occasion of joy, whereas before he was only a nuisance and affliction. God does not will that I should fashion the other person to the image that seems good to me, that is, in my own image; rather in his very freedom from me God made this person in his image. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

9. Matthew 18:15 (ESV)
15 “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.

11. To speak about a brother covertly is forbidden, even under the cloak of help and goodwill; for it is precisely in this guise that the spirit of hatred among brothers always creeps in when it is seeking to create mischief. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer