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 talking idly as the piercings of the sword: and the tongue of the wise is healing.
Proverbs 16:24
Words of pleasantness an, honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and healing to the bones.
Malachi 4:2
And to you fearing my name the sun of justice arose, and healing in his wings; and ye went forth and spread as calves of the stall.
A tree
Proverbs 3:18
She is a tree of life to all holding upon her: and happy he holding her fast
Genesis 3:22
And Jehovah God will say, Lo, Adam became as one from us, to know good and evil: and now lest he shall send forth his hand and take also of the tree of lives, and eat, and live to eternity:
1 Timothy 6:3
If any teach otherwise, and come not up to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine according to devotion;
Revelation 2:7
He having ears, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches; To him conquering I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the pleasure garden of God.
A breach
Proverbs 18:8
The words of the tale-bearer as dainty morsels, and they will go down to the chambers of the belly.
Proverbs 26:22
The words of a tale-bearer as dainty morsels, and they will go down to the chambers of the belly.
Psalm 52:2
Thy tongue will purpose mischief as a razor being sharpened, working deceit.
Psalm 109:22
For poor and needy am I, and my heart wounded in my midst.