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Proverbs 15:4

A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

Cross References

  1. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
  2. There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
  3. And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
  4. Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah. Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
  5. For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
  6. Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
  7. The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
  8. The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
  9. The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
  10. But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
  11. If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
  12. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.