1. THE TONGUE
James 3:1-12

2. EVIL TONGUE Gossiping Tongue – Leviticus 19:16 1 Peter 4:15
Whispering Tongue – Proverbs 16:28
Romans 1:29
Slandering Tongue- Psalm 101:5
James 4:11
Tattling Tongue – “to babble or prate against” - Proverbs 10:8
3 John 10

3. EVIL TONGUE Backbiting Tongue – “to speak evil against” – Psalm 15:1-3
2 Corinthians 12:20
Romans 1:30
1 Peter 2:1
Cursing and Swearing Tongue – “invoke the name of a sacred being in an oath; to use profane or obscene language.” “to use profanely insolent language against; blaspheme.”

4. EVIL TONGUE
Matthew 23:16-22
“By God, this is true!” “By the Temple, I swear this is so.”
Tell The Truth – YES & NO – And It Will Stand on its OWN MERIT!
Leviticus 19:12 “nor shall you profane the name of your God”
Matthew 26:74 “curse and swear”

5. EVIL TONGUE
Euphemisms – “the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant…”
Many Christians Picked up Euphemisms Innocently- All Sincerely Desire to Please God And Will Remove Them
Not My Own Definitions – Webster’s 9th Collegiate Dictionary – Dictionary.Com

6. EUPHEMISMS
DARN – “#3 adj or adv [euphemism] damned” “#4 is “verb…damn” “#5 “noun…damn”
HECK – “noun [euphemism] hell”
GOSH – “interjection [euphemism for God] used as a mild oath..”
“Oh my God” = OMG
GEE/GEES – “interjection [euphemism for Jesus].”

7. EUPHEMISMS SHOOT –”[euphemism for _____] (explicative deleted!) 1876
MY GOODNESS - “a euphemism for God”
Jesus said in Matthew 12:36,37 “But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemed.”

8. How Can We Be Sure our Words are what the Should Be?
Luke 6:45 NKJV 45 "A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.”
Philippians 4:8 NKJV 8 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy--meditate on these things.”

9. THE RIGHTEOUS TONGUE
Confess Christ – Matthew 10:32-33 NKJV 32 "Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. 33 "But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.”
Comfort One Another – 1 Thessalonians 4:18 NKJV 18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.”
Spread The Gospel – Matthew 28:18-20 “19 "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,..”

10. How Is Your Tongue Being Used?
James 3:10 “Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so.”