Verse 4

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

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 3:18 : 18 She is a tree of life to them that lay holde on her, and blessed is he that retaineth her.
  • Prov 12:18 : 18 There is that speaketh wordes like the prickings of a sworde: but the tongue of wise men is health.
  • Prov 16:24 : 24 Faire wordes are as an hony combe, sweetenesse to the soule, and health to the bones.
  • Prov 18:8 : 8 The wordes of a tale bearer are as flatterings, and they goe downe into the bowels of the belly.
  • Prov 18:14 : 14 The spirit of a man will susteine his infirmitie: but a wounded spirit who can beare it?
  • Gen 3:22-24 : 22 And the Lord God said, Beholde, the man is become as one of vs, to knowe good and euill; nowe lest he put foorth his hand, and take also of ye tree of life & eate & liue for euer, 23 Therefore the Lord God sent him foorth from the garden of Eden, to till ye earth, whence he was taken. 24 Thus he cast out man, and at the East side of the garden of Eden he set the Cherubims, and the blade of a sworde shaken, to keepe the way of the tree of life.
  • Ps 52:2-4 : 2 Thy tongue imagineth mischiefe, and is like a sharpe rasor, that cutteth deceitfully. 3 Thou doest loue euill more then good, and lies more then to speake the trueth. Selah. 4 Thou louest all wordes that may destroye, O deceitfull tongue!
  • Ps 109:22 : 22 Because I am poore and needie, and mine heart is wounded within me.
  • Mal 4:2 : 2 But vnto you that feare my Name, shall the sunne of righteousnesse arise, and health shall be vnder his wings, and ye shall goe forth, & growe vp as fat calues.
  • 1 Tim 6:3 : 3 If any man teach otherwise, and consenteth not to the wholesome wordes of our Lorde Iesus Christ, and to the doctrine, which is according to godlinesse,
  • Rev 2:7 : 7 Let him that hath an eare, heare, what the Spirite saith vnto the Churches, To him that ouercommeth, will I giue to eate of the tree of life which is in the middes of the Paradise of God.
  • Prov 26:22 : 22 The wordes of a tale bearer are as flatterings, and they goe downe into the bowels of the belly.