The Silence of Christ Our Substitute and the Misuse of Our Tongue

by Justin Taylor

James 3 warns us about the misuse of our tongue. James begins in v. 1 by saying that not many of us should be teachers, because we will be judged with greater strictness. His first illustration of our common “stumbling” (v. 2) is our “small member,” the tongue (v. 5). Like a small flame that can lead to a great forest first (v. 5), so the tongue can set ablaze the whole of our life (v. 6). It is untameable, restless, and full of deadly poison (vv. 7-8). The same tongue can bless God and cure those in the image of God (vv. 9-10). As James says, “My brothers, these things out not to be so” (v. 10).


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