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The Tongue: -

The Tongue: - My brothers, not many of you should become teachers. As you know, we teachers will be judged with greater strictness than others. All of us often make mistakes. But if a person never makes a mistake in what he says, he is perfect and is also able to control his whole being. We put a bit into the mouth of a horse to make it obey us, and we are able to make it go where we want. Or think of a ship; big as it is and driven by such strong winds, it can be steered by a small rudder, and it goes wherever the pilot wants it to go. So it is with the tongue; small as it is, it can boast about great things.
Just think how large a forest can be set on fire by a tiny flame! And the tongue is like a fire. It is world of wrong, occupying its place in our bodies and spreading evil through our whole being. It sets on fire the entire course of existence with the fire that comes to it from hell itself. Man is able to tame and has tamed all other creatures-wild animals and birds, reptiles and fish. But no one has ever been able to tame the tongue. It is evil and uncontrollable, full of deadly poison. We use it to give thanks to our Lord and Father and also to curse our fellow-man, who is created in the likeness of God. Words of thanksgiving and cursing pour out from the same mouth. My brothers, this should not happen!
No spring of water pours out of sweet water and bitter water from the same opening. A fig tree, my brothers, cannot bear olives, a grapevine cannot bear figs, nor can a salty spring can produce sweet water.

Paul and the false Apostles: -

Paul and the false Apostles: -
I wish you would tolerate me, even when I am a bit foolish. Please do! I am jealous for you, just as God is; you are like a pure virgin whom I have promised in marriage to one man only, Christ himself. I am afraid that your minds will be corrupted and that you will abandon your full and pure devotion to Christ-in the same way that eve was deceived by the snake’s clever lies. For you gladly tolerate anyone who comes to you and preaches a different Jesus, not the one we preached; and you accept a sprit and a gospel completely different from the Sprit and the gospel you received from us.
I do not think that I am the least bit inferior to those very special so-called “apostles” of yours! Perhaps I am amateur in speaking, but certainly not in knowledge; we have made this clear to you at all times and in all conditions.
I did not charge you a thing when I when I preached the Good News of God to you; I humbled myself in order to make you important. Was that wrong of me? While I was working among you, I was paid by other churches; I was robbing them, so to speak, in order to help you. And during the time I was with you, I did not bother you for help when I needed money; the brothers who came from Macedonia brought me everything I needed. As in the past, so in the future: I will never be a burden to you! By Christ’s truth in me, I promise that this boast of mine will not be silenced anywhere in all Achaia. Do I say this because I don’t love you? God knows I love you!
I will go on doing what I am doing now, in order to keep those other “apostles” from having any reason for boasting and saying that they work in the same way what we do. Those men are not true apostles-they are false apostles, who lie about their work and disguise themselves to look like real apostles of Christ. Well no wonder! Even Satan in disguise himself to look like an angel of light! So it is no great thing if his servants disguise themselves to look like servants of righteousness. In the end they will get exactly what their actions deserve.

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