But now you must get rid of all such things—anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive language from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have stripped off the old self with its practices and have clothed yourselves with the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of its creator.
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The United States Constitution grants its citizens the freedom of speech. It is essential in a democratic society to allow its people to have a voice. As sinful beings driven by selfishness, we captives to our foolishness. We play with foul language like adolescents discovering a new toy. We throw razor laced words at one another to rip people to shreds without getting any blood on our hands. God grants us the freedom to choose to be better. Let's choose this day to put away the language that makes us all look like fools or felons. Let's choose this day to look and sound a little more like the One in whose image we were created.
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Let us be holy. Amen.