Psalms 15:3 · World English Bible
Psalms 15:3 Meaning He Who Doesn’t Slander with His Tongue
he who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;
What does Psalms 15:3 mean?
The tongue is a small door, but a whole heart's condition walks out through it. Slander feels like a comment about someone else, yet it is really the envy and contempt inside the speaker finding an exit.
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The tongue is a small door, but a whole heart's condition walks out through it. Slander feels like a comment about someone else, yet it is really the envy and contempt inside the speaker finding an exit. The cure is to guard that door: before the word about another leaves, a person can ask what appetite in himself is trying to get out.
And there is more at stake than manners. The friend spoken against, the fellow man slurred, is a place where the same One shows Himself, a cup holding water from a single spring. To tear him down with the tongue is to throw stones at a mirror of God without meaning to. Kept speech is not mere politeness; it is reverence for where the Hidden shines.
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Live Psalms 15:3 today
- When a complaint about someone starts forming in your head, ask what it is really about in you, boredom, envy, a hurt you have not named.
- In a group chat where someone absent is getting taken apart, change the subject or say one true good thing about them. You do not need a speech.
- When you have to give hard feedback about a colleague, say it to their face first, or not at all.
What do I say about people who are not in the room?
The same truth in other traditions
Buddhism · right speech
Before speaking, ask if it is true, if it is kind, and if it needs saying now. Most talk about absent people fails at least two of those.
Judaism · lashon hara
The sages treated harmful speech as near murder, because the words cannot be gathered back once they are loose. Even true things can be weapons.
Hinduism · namaste
The greeting means the same light in me greets the same light in you. Insult the person in front of you and you are aiming at something larger than them.
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