Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only what is useful for building up, as there is need, so that your words may give grace to those who hear. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption. Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and strangling and slander, together with all malice, and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.

Ephesians 4:29-32

Do you live up to the standard of speaking no evil? Do you seek to build others up? Do you show tenderness and kindness, instead of bitterness and malice? What will people say about you, at your funeral?

A kind word is the oil

that takes the friction

out of life.

Our Daily Bread - October 21, 2004