"from the same mouth come both blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be this way."from the same mouth" -Which reveals something is seriously wrong with. heart that pours out both blessings and curses. The mixture of cursing with blessing proves the unreality or insincerity of the good that is said. "things ought not to be this way" -"In the strongest possible Greek---only here in the New Testament…..His phrase is rather like our 'It's not right!' spoken with all the force of protesting condemnation" (Adamson pp. 146-147). In addition, how can mere humans call down any evil upon another person? God isn't influenced or impressed by our curses. Such language is useless, pointless, profitless, ungodly and hypocritical if we claim to love God at the same time we are saying such things. Numbers 2:8 "How shall. curse, whom God has not cursed?". "ought not to be" -the present tense is here used, thus "these things shouldn't keep on happening".

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