God’s Word for Today

12 June, 2025

23 The north wind brings forth rain,

and a backbiting tongue, angry looks.

-Prov 25:23 ESV

THE NORTH WIND BRINGS FORTH RAIN

“As surely as a north wind brings rain, so a gossiping tongue causes anger!” [v.23, NLT] The exact Hebrew phrase used here implies something deceptive, secretive, or slanderous. Destroying others down with gossip and criticism damages one's own reputation.

These verbal sins, such as slander, backbiting, gossip, and many more are strongly condemned in Scriptures toward wicked people who practice these. Paul writes that "God gave them up to dishonorable passions" and "to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done" (Rom 1:26,28). He describes them as full of "all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice…envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless" (Rom 1:29–31).

To believers, Peter commanded his readers to "put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander." He indicated that putting those sins away was necessary for spiritual growth (1 Pet 2:1,2). One of the most important marks of maturity is bridling the tongue. James says, “For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.”[Jas 3:2]

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