{"id":57633,"date":"2005-01-03T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-04T02:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=57633"},"modified":"2023-01-03T20:17:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T02:17:52","slug":"it-just-slipped-out-of-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/it-just-slipped-out-of-what\/","title":{"rendered":"It Just Slipped Out … Of What?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\tby Bryan Matthew Dockens\n

\"\"When excusing themselves for uttering profanities or curses, the kind of words which should never escape our mouths (Ephesians 4:29), many will say, “I’m sorry; it just slipped out”. But what did those corrupt words slip out of, exactly? Jesus explained, “For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things<\/em>” (Matthew 12:34-35). That is to say, bad words don’t “slip out” of good hearts; they come from bad hearts. Therefore, “Purify your hearts!<\/em>” (James 4:8).<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Bryan Matthew Dockens When excusing themselves for uttering profanities or curses, the kind of words which should never escape our mouths (Ephesians 4:29), many will say, “I’m sorry; it just slipped out”. But what did those corrupt words slip out of, exactly? Jesus explained, “For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[492],"class_list":["post-57633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-profanity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32345,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/will-we-be-judged-by-everything-we-say-here-on-earth\/","url_meta":{"origin":57633,"position":0},"title":"Will we be judged by everything we say here on earth?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"March 29, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: What does it mean we will be judged by one day by every word we have spoken here on earth? 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