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It can produce life, or bring forth death. So much has been written about it. Have you
ever wondered why so much of the writing in scriptures concerning women involves
their tongues? Let me give you a small sampling of these scriptures.

Judges 16:16
It came about when [Delilah] pressed [Samson] daily with her words
and urged him, that his soul was annoyed to death.

Proverbs 6:23-24
For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching is light; aAnd
reproofs for discipline are the way of life to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

Proverbs 31:10, 26
An excellent wife, who can find? For her worth is far above jewels... She
opens her mouth in wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her
tongue.

Proverbs 19:13
A foolish son is destruction to his father, and the contentions of a wife
are a constant dripping.

Proverbs 27:15-16
A constant dripping on a day of steady rain and a contentious woman
are alike; he who would restrain her restrains the wind, and grasps oil
with his right hand.

Proverbs 21:9
It is better to live in a corner of a roof than in a house shared with a
contentious woman.

I Corinthians 14:34
The women are to keep silent in the churches; for they are not
permitted to speak, but are to subject themselves, just as the Law also
says.

I Timothy 2:11-12
A woman must quietly receive instruction with entire submissiveness.
But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man,
but to remain quiet.

I Peter 3:1
In the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands so
that even if any of them are disobedient to the word, they may be won