Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

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Fon he wishing to enjoy life, and tr see good days lst him restrain his tongue
from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit.-1 Peter iii. 10, (Emphatic Diaglott.)
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if Q the tongue. Peter said of the Christ that
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judgeth righteously." (1 Peter ii. 23.)
This is certainly aworthy attainment to be able to
hear railings and untruths against oneself and in no manner
respond. But there is something deeper underlying
this, here is a promise of good days, and life. How can
our words effect our life or our days? The Christ said,
out of our own mouths are we justified, or, are we condemned.
If we condemn ourselves then we are condemned,
and if we suffer from condemnation
then we
cannot see good days. If we condemn another then
we condemn ourselves, for Paul said, "Thou that condemnest
another doest the same thing thyself."
This is
a serious charge, and if made by another than Paul we
might well question it, or evade it.
But every man and every woman who attempts to walk
the narrow way will sometime or other have consciously
to face this charge. They will have to face it, not -before
another, but before their own soul.
"If any man does not err in word, he is a perfect man,