Proverbs 12:18
"There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health."
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- Proverbs 16:24
"Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 15:4
"A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 10:20
"The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 57:4
"My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword."
Read in chapter → - James 3:6
"And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 52:2
"Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 4:22
"For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 25:18
"A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 15:7
"The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so."
Read in chapter → - Daniel 11:33
"And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days."
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