["FRIVOLOUS FELLOWSHIP" - A Worksheet]

WORDS

(Selected Passages from Proverbs / Ecclesiastes / New Testament only)

[General principle: There are both good and bad uses for words.]
 

A. BY THEM WE WILL BE JUDGED

1. We will be condemned or acquitted [justified, proved innocent]) by God. Matthew 12:37
   
   

B. QUANTITY vs. QUALITY

1. FEW WORDS (small quantities) = GOOD
   • In the presence of God, good words are FEW words. (First LISTEN!) Ecclesiastes 5:2
     
   • Restraint in the use of words = what a man of knowledge does. Proverbs 17:27
      
2. MANY WORDS (large quantities) (Overflowing abundance of words - which characterizes the fool.) = BAD
   • Sin will NOT be absent when many words [much talk] is present. Proverbs 10:19
     
   • It results in the speech of a fool. Ecclesiastes 5:3
     
   • It characterizes a fool: he multiplies words [keeps on talking]. Ecclesiastes 10:14
     
   • Like much dreaming, many [empty] words are meaningless. Ecclesiastes 5:7
     
   • The more the words, the less the meaning... until nobody benefits from them. Ecclesiastes 6:11
     
     

C. BAD USE OF WORDS

1. Reckless [careless, rash] words (they pierce like a sword). Proverbs 12:18
   
   
2. Careless [idle] words (we will give account for them). Matthew 12:36
   
   
3. The fool's words - begin with folly... end with wicked madness. Ecclesiastes 10:13-14
   
   

D. ADDITIONAL "WORD" studies that could be examined.

Various verses exist, which mention phrases such as the following:

• Pleasant words
  
• Words of knowledge
  
• Reliable words
  
• Wise words
  
• Quiet words
  
• Etc.

(THE EMPHASIS in these verses is not so much on whether or not it is good to use words, but on what their effect will be. Most, if not all, would probably be good uses of words.)

Dennis Hinks © 1999
041221

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