Avoid word fights!
Saint Timothy (ortodox icon) (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) "Of these things put them in rememberance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers." ( 2 Timothy 2:14 ) This command emphasizes the necessity to avoid "word fights." The apostle Paul has much to say about this in other passages. "Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers" ( Ephesians 4:29 ). Our words should be "wholesome words" ( 1 Timothy 6:3 ), "that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment" ( 1 Corinthians 1:10 ). We are not to "give heed to fables and endless genealogies" ( 1 Timothy 1:4 ), but are to "refuse profane and old wives' fables" ( 1 Timothy 4:7 ). We are not to listen to &q