Do you vituperate?

Huh?!?! What do thos words mean? Reviler. Vituperate.

I was reading my Bible this morning and I decided to look up words that I read often, but needed to know the deeper meaning. (like integrity, immoral, swindler,covetous,effeminate, and revilers) As always I was blown away.

I am sure I have been told in the past what this word meant, but until this AM when the scales came off my eyes and I really heard what it says, I was blind and unknowing.

Revile means: assail with abusive language, vituperate.

I then had to look up vituperate, because, well, I did not know what that meant at all.

Vituperate: rebuke or critize harshly, abusively, berate.

In 1 Corinthians 6:8-10, It says, "8On the contrary, you yourselves wrong and defraud. You do this even to your brethren.

 9Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals,

 10nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. "

DISCLAIMER:

I know these verses are about the unsaved and it was about sueing your brother .....we having been bought with a price have a free pass to heaven because of the blood of Jesus Christ. We get to inherit the Kingdom in HIS righteousness.

Now on to what struck me. When I looked up the word revile, I was not expecting this definition.

There are times, in frustration and anger, I say things to my husband or children that I ought not. I lump myself back into the word ever so quickly by my tounge. Words spoken that are like daggers to anothers heart.

Father forgive me for being a reviler!

Help me not to revile my husband or children. May my words be like honey and smooth to their ears.

Father, I am sorry I have read that word so many times in the Bible and did not look it up. I wish I was more of a scholar, or at least had more time to dig deeper without distraction. You know my heart though and I desire to do good and not evil. Help me to work on this area today, tomorrow and for all my time here on earth.

Thanks for teaching me through your Holy Spirit. I am sure I make Him tired....