Proverbs 12:18

Bishops' Bible (1568)

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

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  • 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.

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  • Prov 10:31-32
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    31 The mouth of the iust wyll be talking of wisdome: but the tongue of the frowarde shall be cut out.

    32 The lippes of the ryghteous vtter that which is acceptable: but the mouth of the vngodly speaketh frowarde thynges.

  • Prov 12:19
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    19 The lippe of trueth shalbe stable for euer: but a dissemblyng tongue is soone chaunged.

  • Prov 15:4
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    4 A wholsome tongue is a tree of lyfe: but the frowardnesse therof doth make sad the spirite.

  • Prov 12:17
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    17 A iust man wyll tell the trueth and shewe the thyng that is ryght: but a false witnesse deceaueth.

  • Prov 15:1-2
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    1 A soft aunswere appeaseth wrath: but rough wordes stirre vp anger.

    2 The tongue of such as be wise vseth knoweledge aryght: as for a foolishe mouth it babbleth out nothyng but foolishnesse.

  • Ps 37:30
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    30 The mouth of the righteous is exercised in wysdome: and his tongue wyll be talking of iudgement.

  • Prov 18:6-8
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    6 A fooles lippes come with brawling, and his mouth prouoketh vnto stripes.

    7 A fooles mouth is his owne destruction, and his lippes are the snare for his owne soule.

    8 The wordes of a slaunderer are very woundes, and go through vnto the innermost partes of the body.

  • Ps 52:2
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    2 Thy tongue imagineth wickednes: and deceaueth like a sharpe raser.

  • Prov 10:18-21
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    18 He that hydeth hatred with lying lippes, and he that speaketh slaunder, is a foole.

    19 Where much babblyng is, there must needes be offence: and he that refrayneth his lippes, is wyse.

    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.

  • Eccl 10:12
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    12 The wordes out of a wyse mans mouth are gratious: but the lippes of a foole wyll destroy him selfe.

  • Prov 14:3
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    3 In the mouth of the foolishe is the rodde of pryde: but the lippes of the wyse wyll preserue them.

  • Prov 18:21
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    21 Death and life are in the instrument of the tongue, and they that loue it, shall eate the fruite thereof.

  • Prov 16:23-24
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    23 A wyse heart ordereth his mouth wisely, and ministreth learnyng vnto his lippes.

    24 Fayre wordes are an hony combe, a refresshyng of the mynde, and health of the bones.

  • Prov 18:4
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    4 The wordes of a wyse mans mouth are lyke deepe waters: and the well of wisdome is like a full streame.

  • Prov 10:11
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    11 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but the mouth of the vngodly kepeth mischiefe in secrete.

  • Prov 26:28
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    28 A lying tongue hateth the afflicted: and a flattering mouth worketh mischiefe.

  • Prov 21:23
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    23 Who so kepeth his mouth and his tongue, the same kepeth his soule from troubles.

  • Prov 25:18
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    18 Whoso beareth false witnesse against his neighbour, he is a very club, a sworde, and a sharpe arrowe.

  • Prov 26:22
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    22 A talebearers wordes are lyke men that strike with hammers, and they pearse the inwarde partes of the body.

  • Jer 9:8
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    8 Their tongues are like sharpe arrowes to speake deceipt: with their mouth they speake peaceablie to their neighbour, but priuilie they lay wayte for hym.

  • Prov 17:20
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    20 Who so hath a frowarde heart, obteyneth no good: and he that hath a double tongue, shall fall into mischiefe.

  • Ps 64:3
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    3 Who haue whet their tongue lyke a sword: who haue drawne their arrow, euen a bitter worde.

  • Prov 12:6
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    6 The talkyng of the vngodly is howe they may lay wayte for blood: but the mouth of the righteous will deliuer the.

  • Eccl 9:18
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    18 For wysdome is better then harnesse: but one sinner alone destroyeth muche goodnesse.

  • Prov 13:2
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    2 Of the fruite of a wise mans mouth shall eche man eate good thynges: but the wicked shall eate of the fruite of the transgressours.

  • Prov 25:11
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    11 A worde spoken in due season, is lyke apples of golde in a graued worke of siluer.

  • Prov 10:13-14
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    13 In the lippes of him that hath vnderstanding, a man shall finde wysdome: but the rod belongeth to the backe of the foolishe.

    14 Wyse men lay vp knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is nye destruction.

  • Prov 15:7
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    7 The lippes of the wise do sowe knowledge: but the heart of the foolishe do not so.

  • Eccl 12:11
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    11 For the wordes of the wyse are like prickes and nayles that go thorowe, of the auctoures of gatheringes which are geuen of one shephearde.

  • Ps 55:21
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    21 The wordes of his mouth were softer then butter, yet warre was in his heart: his wordes were smother then oyle, and yet be they very swordes.

  • Ps 34:13
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    13 Kepe thy tongue from euill: and thy lippes that they speake no guyle.

  • Ps 12:3
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    3 God wyll cut away all flatteryng lippes: and the tongue that speaketh great thinges.

  • Prov 15:23
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    23 A ioyfull thing it is to a man whe his counsayle is folowed: and howe good is a worde spoken in season.

  • Prov 16:13-14
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    13 Ryghteous lippes are pleasaunt vnto kynges, and them that speaketh the trueth shall he loue.

    14 The kinges displeasure is a messenger of death: but a wise man wyll pacifie hym.

  • Ps 31:18
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    18 Let the lying lippes be put to scilence: which speake against ye righteous greeuous thinges with disdaine & contempt.

  • Prov 16:21
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    21 Who so is wyse in heart, shalbe called prudent: and the sweetnesse of his lippes encreaseth learnyng.

  • Prov 25:15
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    15 With pacience is a prince pacified, and with a softe tongue is rigorousnesse broken.

  • Prov 26:18
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    18 As he that fayneth him selfe mad, casteth firebrandes, deadly arrowes and dartes: