Niceness Is Not a Biblical Command

The most unsettling sentence in the Bible about human speech is spoken in a fight. In Matthew 12, the Pharisees have already gone out and “conspired against” Jesus, “how to destroy him” (v. 14, ESV throughout). They have watched him heal a blind and mute man, and concluded, in pu
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