Verse 4

A gentle tongue is a tree of life; But perverseness therein is a breaking of the spirit.

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 3:18 : 18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: And happy is every one that retaineth her.
  • Prov 12:18 : 18 There is that speaketh rashly like the piercings of a sword; But the tongue of the wise is health.
  • Prov 16:24 : 24 Pleasant words are [as] a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
  • Prov 18:8 : 8 The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, And they go down into the innermost parts.
  • Prov 18:14 : 14 The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; But a broken spirit who can bear?
  • Gen 3:22-24 : 22 And Jehovah 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-- 23 therefore Jehovah God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. 24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden the Cherubim, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
  • Ps 52:2-4 : 2 Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. 3 Thou lovest evil more than good, And lying rather than to speak righteousness. {{Selah 4 Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
  • Ps 109:22 : 22 For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.
  • Mal 4:2 : 2 But unto you that fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings; and ye shall go forth, and gambol as calves of the stall.
  • 1 Tim 6:3 : 3 If any man teacheth a different doctrine, and consenteth not to sound words, [even] the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
  • Rev 2:7 : 7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. To him that overcometh, to him will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.
  • Prov 26:22 : 22 The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, And they go down into the innermost parts.