Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
General references
Bible References
That
Proverbs 25:18
Like a club and a sword and a piercing arrow
Is a man who testifies falsely against his neighbor (acquaintance).
Like a club and a sword and a piercing arrow
Is a man who testifies falsely against his neighbor (acquaintance).
Psalm 52:2
Your tongue devises destruction,
Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Your tongue devises destruction,
Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Psalm 57:4
My life is among lions;
I must lie among those who breathe out fire—
The sons of men whose teeth are spears and arrows,
And their tongue a sharp sword.
My life is among lions;
I must lie among those who breathe out fire—
The sons of men whose teeth are spears and arrows,
And their tongue a sharp sword.
Psalm 59:7
Look how they belch out [insults] with their mouths;
Swords [of sarcasm, ridicule, slander, and lies] are in their lips,
For they say, “Who hears us?”
Look how they belch out [insults] with their mouths;
Swords [of sarcasm, ridicule, slander, and lies] are in their lips,
For they say, “Who hears us?”
Psalm 64:3
Who have sharpened their tongues like a sword.
They aim venomous words as arrows,
Who have sharpened their tongues like a sword.
They aim venomous words as arrows,
James 3:6
And the tongue is [in a sense] a fire, the very world of injustice and unrighteousness; the tongue is set among our members as that which contaminates the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life [the cycle of man’s existence], and is itself set on fire by hell (Gehenna).
General references
Proverbs 25:18
Like a club and a sword and a piercing arrow
Is a man who testifies falsely against his neighbor (acquaintance).
Like a club and a sword and a piercing arrow
Is a man who testifies falsely against his neighbor (acquaintance).