Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
A wholesome
Bible References
A wholesome
Proverbs 12:18
There is he who speaks rashly like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise is health.
Proverbs 16:24
Pleasant words are a honeycomb: Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Malachi 4:2
But to you who fear my name the sun of righteousness shall arise with healing in its wings, and ye shall go forth, and frolic as calves of the stall.
A tree
Proverbs 3:18
She is a tree of life to those who lay hold upon her. And happy is everyone who retains her.
Genesis 3:22
And LORD God said, Behold, the man has become as one of us--to know good and evil--and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever--
1 Timothy 6:3
If any man teaches something different, and does not associate with wholesome words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine according to piety,
Revelation 2:7
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the congregations. To him who overcomes, I will give him to eat from the tree of life that is in the midst of the Paradise of my God.
A breach
Proverbs 18:8
The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts.
Proverbs 26:22
The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts.
Psalm 52:2
Thy tongue devises wickedness, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Psalm 109:22
for I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.