* If we are prone to offend in word, then we should be prone to repent and apologize in word.
* We need to operate in the charity principle and forgive others when they offend us with their words.
* Our dangerous tongue should merit our greatest caution and care.
* Practice blessing and edification and not cursing and tearing down.

Proverbs 10:11 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
Prov. 10:12   Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
Prov. 10:13   In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
Prov. 10:14   Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
Prov. 10:15   The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
Prov. 10:16   The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.
Prov. 10:17   He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.
Prov. 10:18   He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
Prov. 10:19   In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
Prov. 10:20   The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth. 21 The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.
Prov. 10:22   The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
Prov. 10:23   It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
Prov. 10:24   The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted. 25 As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
Prov. 10:26   As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.
Prov. 10:27   The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened. 28 The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
Prov. 10:29   The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity. 30 The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.
Prov. 10:31   The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out. 32 The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.

James 3:1   My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. 2 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. 3 Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body. 4 Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth. 5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. 7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: 8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. 9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. 10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. 11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? 12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.