Proverbs 12:18

Geneva Bible (1560)

There is that speaketh wordes like the prickings of a sworde: but the tongue of wise men is health.

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  • Ps 57:4 : 4 My soule is among lions: I lie among the children of men, that are set on fire: whose teeth are speares and arrowes, & their tongue a sharpe sworde.
  • Prov 16:24 : 24 Faire wordes are as an hony combe, sweetenesse to the soule, and health to the bones.
  • Prov 13:17 : 17 A wicked messenger falleth into euill: but a faithfull ambassadour is preseruation.
  • Prov 15:4 : 4 A wholesome tongue is as a tree of life: but the frowardnes therof is the breaking of ye minde.
  • Prov 15:7 : 7 The lippes of the wise doe spread abroade knowledge: but ye heart of the foolish doth not so.
  • Ps 59:7 : 7 Behold, they brag in their talke, & swords are in their lips: for, Who, say they, doeth heare?
  • Prov 4:22 : 22 For they are life vnto those that find them, and health vnto all their flesh.
  • Jas 3:6-8 : 6 And the tongue is fire, yea, a worlde of wickednesse: so is the tongue set among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature, and it is set on fire of hell. 7 For the whole nature of beasts, & of birds, and of creeping things, and things of the sea is tamed, and hath bene tamed of the nature of man. 8 But the tongue can no man tame. It is an vnruly euill, full of deadly poyson.
  • Rev 1:16 : 16 And he had in his right hand seuen starres: and out of his mouth went a sharpe two edged sword: and his face shone as the sunne shineth in his strength.
  • Rev 22:2 : 2 In the middes of the street of it, and of either side of ye riuer, was the tree of life, which bare twelue maner of fruits, and gaue fruit euery moneth: and the leaues of the tree serued to heale the nations with.
  • Prov 10:20-21 : 20 The tongue of the iust man is as fined siluer: but the heart of the wicked is litle worth. 21 The lippes of the righteous doe feede many: but fooles shall die for want of wisedome.
  • Ps 64:3 : 3 Which haue whette their tongue like a sword, and shot for their arrowes bitter wordes.
  • Prov 25:18 : 18 A man that beareth false witnes against his neighbour, is like an hammer and a sword, and a sharpe arrowe.
  • Dan 11:33 : 33 And they that vnderstand among the people, shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by sword, & by flame, by captiuitie & by spoile many dayes.
  • Ps 52:2 : 2 Thy tongue imagineth mischiefe, and is like a sharpe rasor, that cutteth deceitfully.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 10:31-32
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    31 The mouth of the iust shall be fruitfull in wisdome: but the tongue of the froward shall be cut out.

    32 The lips of the righteous knowe what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh froward things.

  • Prov 12:19
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    19 The lip of trueth shall be stable for euer: but a lying tongue varieth incontinently.

  • Prov 15:4
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    4 A wholesome tongue is as a tree of life: but the frowardnes therof is the breaking of ye minde.

  • Prov 12:17
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    17 He that speaketh trueth, will shewe righteousnes: but a false witnes vseth deceite.

  • Prov 15:1-2
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    1 A soft answere putteth away wrath: but grieuous wordes stirre vp anger.

    2 The tongue of the wise vseth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fooles babbleth out foolishnesse.

  • Ps 37:30
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    30 The mouth of the righteous will speake of wisedome, and his tongue will talke of iudgement.

  • Prov 18:6-8
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    6 A fooles lips come with strife, & his mouth calleth for stripes.

    7 A fooles mouth is his owne destruction, and his lips are a snare for his soule.

    8 The wordes of a tale bearer are as flatterings, and they goe downe into the bowels of the belly.

  • Ps 52:2
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    2 Thy tongue imagineth mischiefe, and is like a sharpe rasor, that cutteth deceitfully.

  • Prov 10:18-21
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    18 He that dissembleth hatred with lying lips, and he that inuenteth slaunder, is a foole.

    19 In many wordes there cannot want iniquitie: but he that refrayneth his lippes, is wise.

    20 The tongue of the iust man is as fined siluer: but the heart of the wicked is litle worth.

    21 The lippes of the righteous doe feede many: but fooles shall die for want of wisedome.

  • Eccl 10:12
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    12 The words of ye mouth of a wise man haue grace: but the lippes of a foole deuoure himselfe.

  • Prov 14:3
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    3 In the mouth of the foolish is the rod of pride: but the lippes of the wise preserue them.

  • Prov 18:21
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    21 Death & life are in the power of ye tongue, and they that loue it, shal eate the fruite thereof.

  • Prov 16:23-24
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    23 The heart of the wise guideth his mouth wisely, and addeth doctrine to his lippes.

    24 Faire wordes are as an hony combe, sweetenesse to the soule, and health to the bones.

  • Prov 18:4
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    4 The words of a mans mouth are like deepe waters, and the welspring of wisdome is like a flowing riuer.

  • Prov 10:11
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    11 The mouth of a righteous man is a welspring of life: but iniquitie couereth the mouth of the wicked.

  • Prov 26:28
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    28 A false tongue hateth the afflicted, and a flattering mouth causeth ruine.

  • Prov 21:23
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    23 He that keepeth his mouth and his tongue, keepeth his soule from afflictions.

  • Prov 25:18
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    18 A man that beareth false witnes against his neighbour, is like an hammer and a sword, and a sharpe arrowe.

  • Prov 26:22
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    22 The wordes of a tale bearer are as flatterings, and they goe downe into the bowels of the belly.

  • Jer 9:8
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    8 Their tongue is as an arow shot out, and speaketh deceite: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in his heart hee layeth waite for him.

  • Prov 17:20
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    20 The froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a naughtie tongue, shall fall into euill.

  • Ps 64:3
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    3 Which haue whette their tongue like a sword, and shot for their arrowes bitter wordes.

  • Prov 12:6
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    6 The talking of the wicked is to lye in waite for blood: but the mouth of the righteous will deliuer them.

  • Eccl 9:18
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    18 Better is wisedome then weapons of warre: but one sinner destroyeth much good.

  • Prov 13:2
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    2 A man shall eate good things by the fruite of his mouth: but the soule of the trespassers shall suffer violence.

  • Prov 25:11
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    11 A word spoken in his place, is like apples of golde with pictures of siluer.

  • Prov 10:13-14
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    69%

    13 In the lippes of him that hath vnderstanding wisdome is founde, and a rod shalbe for the backe of him that is destitute of wisedome.

    14 Wise men lay vp knowledge: but ye mouth of the foole is a present destruction.

  • Prov 15:7
    69%

    7 The lippes of the wise doe spread abroade knowledge: but ye heart of the foolish doth not so.

  • Eccl 12:11
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    11 The wordes of the wise are like goads, and like nailes fastened by the masters of the assemblies, which are giuen by one pastour.

  • Ps 55:21
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    21 The wordes of his mouth were softer then butter, yet warre was in his heart: his words were more gentle then oyle, yet they were swordes.

  • Ps 34:13
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    13 Keepe thy tongue from euill, and thy lips, that they speake no guile.

  • Ps 12:3
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    3 The Lorde cut off all flattering lippes, and the tongue that speaketh proude things:

  • Prov 15:23
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    23 A ioy commeth to a man by the answere of his mouth: and how good is a word in due seaso?

  • Prov 16:13-14
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    13 Righteous lips are the delite of Kings, and the King loueth him that speaketh right things.

    14 The wrath of a King is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacifie it.

  • Ps 31:18
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    18 Let the lying lips be made dumme, which cruelly, proudly and spitefully speake against the righteous.

  • Prov 16:21
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    21 The wise in heart shall bee called prudent: and the sweetenesse of the lippes shall increase doctrine.

  • Prov 25:15
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    15 A Prince is pacified by staying of anger, and a soft tongue breaketh the bones.

  • Prov 26:18
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    18 As he that faineth himselfe mad, casteth fire brands, arrowes, and mortall things,