Proverbs 18:8

Coverdale Bible (1535)

The wordes of a slaunderer are very woudes, and go thorow vnto the ynmost partes of the body.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 19:16 : 16 Thou shalt let no preuy accuser go amoge ye people. Nether shalt thou stonde agaynst yi neghbours bloude: for I am ye LORDE.
  • Prov 16:28 : 28 A frowarde body causeth strife, and he yt is a blabbe of his tonge, maketh deuysion amonge prynces.
  • Prov 26:20-22 : 20 Where no wodd is, there the fyre goeth out: and where the bacbyter is taken awaye, there the strife ceaseth. 21 Coles kyndle heate, and wodd ye fyre: euen so doth a braulinge felowe stere vp variaunce. 22 A slaunderers wordes are like flatery, but they pearse ye inwarde partes of ye body.
  • Ps 52:2 : 2 Where as the goodnesse of God endureth yet daylie.
  • Prov 12:18 : 18 A slaunderous personne pricketh like a swerde, but a wyse mans tonge is wholsome.
  • Ps 64:3-4 : 3 Which whette their tuges like a swerde, & shute wt their venimous wordes like as wt arowes. 4 That they maye preuely hurte ye innocet, & sodely to hit him wt out eny feare.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Prov 26:22-23
    2 verses
    94%

    22A slaunderers wordes are like flatery, but they pearse ye inwarde partes of ye body.

    23Venymous lippes & a wicked herte, are like a potsherde couered wt syluer drosse.

  • Prov 20:19
    78%

    19Medle not with him that bewrayeth secretes, and is a slaunderer, and disceaueth with his lippes.

  • Prov 11:13
    78%

    13A dyssemblynge person wil discouer preuy thinges, but he that is of a faithfull hert, will kepe councel.

  • Prov 18:6-7
    2 verses
    78%

    6A fooles lippes are euer brawlinge, and his mouth prouoketh vnto batayll.

    7A fooles mouth is his owne destruccion, and his lippes are ye snare for his owne soule.

  • Prov 16:27-28
    2 verses
    74%

    27An vngodly personne stereth vp euell, and in his lippes he is as an whote burnynge fyre.

    28A frowarde body causeth strife, and he yt is a blabbe of his tonge, maketh deuysion amonge prynces.

  • Prov 26:27-28
    2 verses
    74%

    27Who so dyggeth vp a pytt, shal fal therin: and he yt weltreth a stone, shal stomble vpon it hymselfe.

    28A dyssemblynge tonge hateth one that rebuketh him, and a flaterige mouth worketh myschefe.

  • Prov 10:18-19
    2 verses
    74%

    18Dissemblynge lippes kepe hatred secretly, and he that speaketh eny slaunder, is a foole.

    19Where moch bablinge is, there must nedes be offence: he that refrayneth his lippes, is wysest of all.

  • Prov 12:18
    73%

    18A slaunderous personne pricketh like a swerde, but a wyse mans tonge is wholsome.

  • Eccl 10:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11A babler of his tonge is no better, then a serpent that styngeth without hyssynge.

    12The wordes out of a wyse mans mouth are gracious, but the lippes of a foole wil destroye himself.

  • Prov 17:4
    73%

    4A wicked body holdeth moch of false lippes, & a dyssemblynge persone geueth eare to a disceatfull toge.

  • Prov 18:9
    71%

    9Who so is slouthfull and slacke in his labor, is ye brother of him ye is a waister.

  • Prov 6:18-19
    2 verses
    71%

    18an herte yt goeth aboute wt wicked ymaginacios, fete that be swift in rennynge to do myschefe,

    19a false wytnesse yt bringeth vp lyes, & soch one as soweth discorde amonge brethren.

  • Prov 25:18
    71%

    18Who so beareth false wytnesse agaynst his neghboure, he is a very speare, a swearde & a sharpe arowe.

  • Prov 23:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8Yee ye morsels that thou hast eaten shalt thou perbreake, and lese those swete wordes.

    9Tel nothinge in to ye eares of a foole, for he wyl despyse the wy?dome of thy wordes.

  • Prov 26:19-20
    2 verses
    71%

    19And then sayeth he: I dyd it but in sporte.

    20Where no wodd is, there the fyre goeth out: and where the bacbyter is taken awaye, there the strife ceaseth.

  • Jer 9:8
    71%

    8Their tunges are like sharpe arowes, to speake disceate. With their mouth they speake peaceably to their neghboure, but preuely they laye waite for him.

  • Prov 27:6
    70%

    6Faithfull are the woundes of a louer, but ye kysses of an enemie are disceatfull.

  • Prov 18:20-21
    2 verses
    70%

    20A mans bely shalbe satisfied with the frute of his owne mouth, and with the increase of his lippes shal he be fylled.

    21Death and life stonde in the power of the tonge, he that loueth it, shal enioye the frute therof.

  • Ps 41:6
    69%

    6Though he came in to se, yet meaned he falsede in his hert, heapinge myschefe vpon himself.

  • Prov 15:4
    69%

    4A wholsome tonge is a tre of life, but he that abuseth it, hath a broken mynde.

  • Prov 18:4
    69%

    4The wordes of a mas mouth are like depe waters, and the well of wy?dome is like a full streame.

  • Ps 10:7
    69%

    7He sytteth lurkynge in the gardens, that he maye pryuely murthur the innocent, his eyes are set vpo the poore.

  • Prov 13:2
    69%

    2A good ma shal enioye the frute of his mouth, but he that hath a frowarde mynde, shalbe spoyled.

  • Prov 17:20
    69%

    20Who so hath a frowarde herte, opteyneth no good: and he yt hath an ouerthwarte tonge, shal fall into myschefe.

  • Prov 21:23
    68%

    23Who so kepeth his mouth and his tonge, the same kepeth his soule from troubles.

  • Ps 5:9
    68%

    9their throte is an open sepulchre: with their tonges they disceaue.

  • Prov 19:28
    68%

    28A false wytnes laugheth iudgmet to scorne, & the mouth of the vngodly eateth vp wickednes.

  • Prov 29:5
    68%

    5Who so flatreth his neghbor, layeth a nette for his fete.

  • Lev 19:16
    68%

    16Thou shalt let no preuy accuser go amoge ye people. Nether shalt thou stonde agaynst yi neghbours bloude: for I am ye LORDE.

  • Ps 15:3
    68%

    3He yt vseth no disceat in his tonge: he that doth no euell to his neghboure, & slaundreth not his neghbours.

  • Prov 10:10
    68%

    10He yt wynketh with his eye, wil do some harme: but he that hath a foolish mouth, shalbe beaten.

  • Prov 25:23
    68%

    23The north wynde dryueth awaye the rayne, euen so doth an earnest sober countenauce a backbyters tonge.

  • Ps 55:21
    68%

    21O cast thy burthen (or care) vpon the LORDE, he shal norish the, and not leaue the rightuous in vnquietnesse.

  • Prov 20:30
    68%

    30Woundes dryue awaye euell, and so do stripes the inwarde partes of the body.

  • Rom 3:14
    67%

    14Their mouth is full of cursynge and bytternesse.

  • Prov 6:14
    67%

    14he is euer ymageninge myschefe & frowardnesse in his hert, & causeth discorde.

  • Prov 15:7
    67%

    7A wyse mouth poureth out knowlege, but ye herte of the foolish doth not so.

  • Ps 12:2
    67%

    2Euery man telleth lyes to his neghbor, they do but flater with their lippes and dissemble in their herte.