How Can We Cure Our Fiery Tongues?

The Ten Commandments by Douma, page 323.

No cure for this ailment exists other than radical conversion. That is how deep the lying lives in us. In our conversion, we must put off the old nature; but in that same context Paul says that we must put away lying and start speaking the truth. We can do this only through the grace of God’s liberation. Also above the ninth commandment stands the preamble: “I am Yahweh, your God, who has freed you from Egypt, the house of slavery.” This is not self-redemption, which enslaves us to the lie; rather, this is liberation by Yahweh, who rescues us from bondage to lying. Jesus Christ says, “I am the way, THE TRUTH, and the life.”