Verse 18

A slaunderous personne pricketh like a swerde, but a wyse mans tonge is wholsome.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 57:4 : 4 Sela. This shal God sende, for his mercy and faithfulnesse sake. I lye with my soule amonge the cruell lyons:
  • Prov 16:24 : 24 Fayre wordes are an hony combe, a refreshinge of ye mynde, & health of ye bones.
  • Prov 13:17 : 17 An vngodly messauger bryngeth myschefe, but a faithfull embassitoure is wholsome.
  • Prov 15:4 : 4 A wholsome tonge is a tre of life, but he that abuseth it, hath a broken mynde.
  • Prov 15:7 : 7 A wyse mouth poureth out knowlege, but ye herte of the foolish doth not so.
  • Ps 59:7 : 7 Beholde, they speake (agaynst me) wt their mouth, swerdes are vnder their lippes, for who reproueth the?
  • Prov 4:22 : 22 For they are life vnto all those that finde the, and health vnto all their bodies.
  • Jas 3:6-8 : 6 and the tonge is fyre, and a worlde of wyckednes. So is the tonge set amonge oure membres, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth a fyre all that we haue of nature, and is it selfe set a fyre euen of hell. 7 All the natures of beastes, and of byrdes, and of serpentes, and thinges of the see, are meked and tamed of the nature of ma. 8 But the toge can no man tame. Yt is an vnruely euell full of deedly poysou.
  • Rev 1:16 : 16 And he had in his right honde seue starres. And out of his mouth went a sharpe two edged swearde. And his face shone euen as the sonne in his strength.
  • Rev 22:2 : 2 in the myddes of the strete of it, and of ether syde of the ryuer was there wod of life: which bare twolue maner of frutes: and gaue frute euery moneth: and the leaues of the wodd serued to heale the people withall.
  • Prov 10:20-21 : 20 An innocent tonge is a noble treasure, but the herte of the vngodly is nothinge worth. 21 The lippes of the rightuous fede a whole multitude, but fooles shal dye in their owne foly.
  • Ps 64:3 : 3 Which whette their tuges like a swerde, & shute wt their venimous wordes like as wt arowes.
  • Prov 25:18 : 18 Who so beareth false wytnesse agaynst his neghboure, he is a very speare, a swearde & a sharpe arowe.
  • Dan 11:33 : 33 Those also that haue vnderstondinge amonge the people, shal enfourme the multitude: & for a longe season, they shalbe persecuted with swearde, with fyre, with captyuyte & with the takynge awaye of their goodes.
  • Ps 52:2 : 2 Where as the goodnesse of God endureth yet daylie.