Ephesians 5:4 It’s not right that dirty stories, foolish talk, or obscene jokes should be mentioned among you either. Instead, give thanks ⸤to God⸥.
The believer follows God, by being clean-mouthed. If a believer is to follow and imitate God, he has to be pure in speech and conversation; he has to keep his mouth or tongue clean. He cannot let his mouth become foul, polluted, filthy, and vile.
He is never, not once, to be engaged in filthiness (aischrotes): using the mouth in obscene, shameful, foul, polluted, base, immoral conduct and conversation. What an indictment of our day—a day of sodomy and perversion. And note: the word refers to both conduct and speech. How polluted and foul-mouthed so many have become—so much so that society could easily be known as a second Sodom and Gomorrah.
The believer is never once to engage in foolish talking (morologia): empty, unthoughtful, senseless, wasted, idle, aimless, or purposeless talk; talk that just fritters away and wastes time, that has absolutely no purpose to it. It also means sinful, foolish, silly, and corrupt talk.
Ephesians 4:29 Don’t say anything that would hurt ⸤another person⸥. Instead, speak only what is good so that you can give help wherever it is needed. That way, what you say will help those who hear you.
The believer is to strip away filthy and foul talk. The word corrupt (sapros) means rotten, foul, putrid and polluting. Corrupt talk, of course, would include cursing and unholy talk and even the worthless conversation that is so often carried on by people. The Amplified New Testament has a good description.
“Let no foul or polluting language, nor evil word, nor unwholesome or worthless talk [ever] come out of your mouth” (Ep. 4:29).
Scripture says that a man with a foul mouth has a mouth that is “an open sepulchre [grave]” (Ro. 3:13). An open grave is foul, and it is a symbol of corruption. So is a man with a sinful mouth. His mouth is …
• foul
• dirty
• obscene
• polluted
• filthy
• detestable
• profane
• dishonorable
• offensive
The obscene mouth may range from off-colored humor to dirty jokes, from immoral suggestions to outright propositions for sex. But no matter, a man with a foul mouth stinks just like an open grave; his filthiness causes corruption, the decay of character. The filth from his mouth eats and eats away at his character and at the character of his listeners—so much so that he becomes as offensive as that of a decayed corpse. The foul, filthy mouth kills character, its attractiveness, trust, faithfulness, morality, honor, and godliness.
I HOPE YOU FOUND THIS QUICK STUDY TO BE A GOOD REFRESHER.
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PASTOR ANDRA HIGGINBOTHAMM