Verse 4

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

Referenced Verses

• Prov 3:18 : 18 She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.
• Prov 12:18 : 18 There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.
• Prov 16:24 : 24 Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
• Prov 18:8 : 8 The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person's innermost parts.
• Prov 18:14 : 14 A man's spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?
• Gen 3:22-24 : 22 Yahweh God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..." 23 Therefore Yahweh God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. 24 So he drove out the man; and he placed Cherubs at the east of the garden of Eden, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
• Ps 52:2-4 : 2 Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. 3 You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah. 4 You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.
• Ps 109:22 : 22 for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.
• Mal 4:2 : 2 But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.
• 1 Tim 6:3 : 3 If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn't consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,
• Rev 2:7 : 7 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.
• Prov 26:22 : 22 The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, they go down into the innermost parts.