Verse 18

A slaunderous person pricketh lyke a sworde: but a wise mans tongue is wholsome.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 57:4 : 4 My soule is among Lions, and I lye among those that are set on fire: among the children of men whose teeth are speares and arrowes, and their tongue a sharpe sword.
  • Prov 16:24 : 24 Fayre wordes are an hony combe, a refresshyng of the mynde, and health of the bones.
  • Prov 13:17 : 17 An vngodly messenger falleth into mischiefe: but a faythfull embassadour is as health.
  • Prov 15:4 : 4 A wholsome tongue is a tree of lyfe: but the frowardnesse therof doth make sad the spirite.
  • Prov 15:7 : 7 The lippes of the wise do sowe knowledge: but the heart of the foolishe do not so.
  • Ps 59:7 : 7 Behold they speake with their mouth, swordes are in their lippes: for say they who doth heare vs?
  • Prov 4:22 : 22 For they are life vnto those that finde them, and health vnto all their bodyes.
  • Jas 3:6-8 : 6 And the tongue is fyre, euen a worlde of wickednesse. So is the tongue set among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fyre the course of nature, & it is set on fyre of hell. 7 All the natures of beastes, & of byrdes, and of serpentes, and thynges of the sea, are meeked and tamed of the nature of man: 8 But the tongue can no man tame, it is an vnruly euyll, full of deadly poyson.
  • Rev 1:16 : 16 And he had in his ryght hande, seuen starres: And out of his mouth went a sharpe two edged sworde: And his face shone, euen as the sunne in his strength.
  • Rev 22:2 : 2 In the middes of the streate of it, and of either side of the ryuer, was there wood of lyfe, which bare twelue maner of fruites, and gaue fruite euery moneth: and the leaues of the wood serued to heale the people withall.
  • Prov 10:20-21 : 20 The tongue of the iust man is as tried siluer: but the heart of the vngodly is a thyng of naught. 21 The lippes of the ryghteous feede a whole multitude: but fooles shall dye in their owne follie.
  • Ps 64:3 : 3 Who haue whet their tongue lyke a sword: who haue drawne their arrow, euen a bitter worde.
  • Prov 25:18 : 18 Whoso beareth false witnesse against his neighbour, he is a very club, a sworde, and a sharpe arrowe.
  • Dan 11:33 : 33 Those also that haue vnderstanding among the people, shall enfourme the multitude, and for a long season thei shall fall with sworde, with fire, with captiuitie, and with the taking away of their goodes.
  • Ps 52:2 : 2 Thy tongue imagineth wickednes: and deceaueth like a sharpe raser.