Sparing Words
How does sparing one's words relate to the great tribulation and God's judgment on the Church?
MOUTH OF FOOLS: THOSE WHO ARE QUICK TO ANSWER WITH LYING WORDS?
Pr 10:19 In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
Pr 16:32 He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
Pr 16:30 He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.
Pr 18:6 A fool’s lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
Pr 18:7 A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
Pr 19:5 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.
Pr 6:24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Pr 26:7 The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
Pr 26:9 As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
Ec 5:3 For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool’s voice is known by multitude of words.
Ec 10:14 A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
Eph 5:3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
Eph 5:4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
Tit 1:10 For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
Tit 1:11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.
Jas 3:6 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.
Jas 3:8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
2Pe 2:18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
Mt 12:34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
Mt 6:21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
THE WISE STUDY TO ANSWER: MAKING SURE ONE BRINGS THE TRUTH?
Pr 17:27 He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.
Pr 17:28 Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
Job 13:5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
Jas 1:19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Ec 9:17 The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.
Job 6:24 Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
Pr 15:28 The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.
Pr 15:2 The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.
Pr 29:11 A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.
Pr 29:20 Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Ec 10:12 The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
Ps 34:13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
1Pe 3:10 For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
Pr 15:14 The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.
Da 6:22 My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.
DECLARING THE WORD: SALVATION OF THE SEPARATION?
Job 6:10 Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed <03582> the words of the Holy One.
Job 27:11 I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal <03582>.
Jer 50:2 Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal <03582> not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.
LEARNING IN SILENCE: LEARNING GOD’S WORD AND BEING SILENT TO OURS?
1Ti 2:11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
1Co 14:34 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
1Co 14:35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
1Pe 3:1 Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
SILENCE IN HEAVEN: JUDGMENT ON THE MOUTH OF FOOLS?
Re 8:1 And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
Ps 31:18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
1Pe 2:15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
Ps 31:17 Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.
SUMMARY CONCLUSION:
The Bible appears to be equating sparing one’s words or holding one’s peace to salvation as the elect turn from foolish talk (false gospels). They are commanded to learn in all silence and in all subjection. The Elect declare and hide not the Word when it is given to them to pronounce judgment on the wicked as God puts them to silence through the removal of the truth.