Proverbs 18:21

How To Avoid Fools And Foolishness

²⁰ A man's stomach will be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth. He will be filled with the produce from his lips. ²¹ Death and life are in the power of the tongue,
And those who love it will eat its fruit.
²² The man who finds a wife finds a good thing. He obtains favor from Jehovah.

Eat the Fruit

Ephesians 4:29

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth. Speak what is good for understanding as the need may be, that it may give grace (divine favor) to those who hear.

Matthew 12:35-37

The good man performs good things out of his good treasure. The evil man performs evil things out of his evil treasure.

Colossians 4:6

Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

Proverbs 10:19-21

Sin does not hide from a multitude of words. The wise controls his lips.

Proverbs 10:31

The mouth of the righteous flows with wisdom but the perverted tongue will be destroyed.

Proverbs 11:30

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who gains life is wise.

Proverbs 12:13

The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips. The righteous will depart from trouble.

Proverbs 13:2-3

A man eats well by the fruit of his mouth. Transgressors eat violence.

Proverbs 18:4-7

The words of a man's mouth are deep waters. It is like a flowing brook and a wellspring of wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 10:12-14

The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

Titus 1:10-11

There are many unruly (rebellious) men, vain talkers, and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision.

James 3:6-9

The tongue is like fire, the place of iniquity among our members. It defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of our life. It is set ablaze like the ever-burning fires in the Valley of Hinnom (Greek: Gehenna: symbolic of total destruction).

Isaiah 57:19

I create the fruit (praise) of the lips: Peace, peace to the near and the far off, says Jehovah, and I will heal him.

Romans 10:14-15

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how will they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without someone to preach?

2 Corinthians 2:16

To the one an aroma of death leading to death and to the other an aroma from life to life. And who is sufficient for these things?

2 Corinthians 11:15

It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also fashion themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works.

2 Peter 2:18

For, uttering arrogant words of vanity, they entice in the desires (lusts) of the flesh, by sensuality (lasciviousness), those who are just escaping from the ones who live in error.