Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

Bible References

A wholesome

Proverbs 12:18
There is who babbleth, as with thrusts of a sword, but, the tongue of the wise, hath healing.
Proverbs 16:24
A comb of honey, are pleasant words, sweet to the taste and healing to the bone.
Malachi 4:2
So shall the sun of righteousness, arise to you who revere my Name, with healing in his wings, - and ye shall come forth and leap for joy like calves let loose from the stall;

A tree

Proverbs 3:18
A tree of life, is she, to them who secure her, - and, they who hold her fast, are every one to be pronounced happy.
Genesis 3:22
Then said Yahweh God - Lo! man, hath become like one of us, in respect of knowing good and evil, - Now, therefore, lest he thrust forth his hand, and take even of the tree of life, and eat, and live to times age-abiding, -
1 Timothy 6:3
If anyone doth otherwise teach, and doth not adhere to healthful discourses - those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the teaching that is, according to godliness,
Revelation 2:7
He that hath an ear, let him hear what, the Spirit, is saying unto the assemblies. Unto him that overcometh - I will give, unto him, to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.

A breach

Proverbs 18:8
the words of a tattler, are dainties, they, therefore go down into the chambers of the inner man.
Psalm 52:2
Engulfing ruin, doth thy tongue devise, Like a whetted razor, working deceit;
Psalm 109:22
For, oppressed and needy, I am, and, my heart, is wounded within me.