A soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.
Cross References
Revelation 2:7He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to eat from the tree of life in the Paradise of God.
Proverbs 3:18She is a tree of life to those who embrace her, and those who lay hold of her are blessed.
Proverbs 12:18Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Proverbs 15:3The eyes of the LORD are in every place, observing the evil and the good.
Proverbs 15:5A fool rejects his father's discipline, but whoever heeds correction is prudent.
Treasury of Scripture
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
a wholesome
Proverbs 12:18
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Proverbs 16:24
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Malachi 4:2
But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
a tree
Proverbs 3:18
She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
Genesis 3:22-24
And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is 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 for ever: …
1 Timothy 6:3
If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
a breach
Proverbs 18:8,14
The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly…
Proverbs 26:22
The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
Psalm 52:2-4
Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully…
