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
A man who bears false witness against his neighbor is like a war club, or a sword, or a sharp arrow.
Psalm 52:2
Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.
Psalm 57:4
My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down amid fiery beasts-- the children of man, whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.
Psalm 59:7
There they are, bellowing with their mouths with swords in their lips-- for "Who," they think,"will hear us?"
Psalm 64:3
who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows,
James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.
General references
Proverbs 25:18
A man who bears false witness against his neighbor is like a war club, or a sword, or a sharp arrow.