"Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me."
You may used these words in the past as someone was saying mean and hurtful things to you, and it simply is not a true statement.
The words that we speak can really hurt people. If we speak out of anger or frustration we can cause damage to people emotionally. We can all think back to a time where someone has said something that really hurt us, and as we think about it it hurts us all over again. We have forgiven them, and they apologized, said they did not mean, and tried to take it back, but once words have been spoken they can not be taken back or unsaid. But you can also remember a time when someone has said something encouraging, and it is something that propelled you to do better, or live better. Verse 4 says
“Speech that heals is like a life-giving tree,
but a perverse tongue breaks the spirit.”
This is what we should want from our speech. We should want to heal people with what we say.
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