Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

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Bible References

That

Proverbs 25:18
Like a club and a sword and a sharp arrow
Is a man who bears false witness against his neighbor.
Psalm 52:2
Your tongue devises destruction,
Like a sharp razor, O worker of deceit.
Psalm 57:4
My soul is among lions;
I must lie among those who breathe forth fire,
Even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows
And their tongue a sharp sword.
Psalm 59:7
Behold, they belch forth with their mouth;
Swords are in their lips,
For, they say, “Who hears?”
Psalm 64:3
Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword.
They aimed bitter speech as their arrow,
James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire, the very world of iniquity; the tongue is set among our members as that which defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life, and is set on fire by hell.

General references

Proverbs 25:18
Like a club and a sword and a sharp arrow
Is a man who bears false witness against his neighbor.