Proverbs 18:21
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Dear Death Eat Food Fruit Fruits Indulge Life Power Thereof Tongue
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English Standard Version
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

New American Standard Bible
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit.

King James Bible
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

International Standard Version
The power of the tongue is life and death— those who love to talk will eat what it produces.

NET Bible
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love its use will eat its fruit.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and he that loves it will eat from its fruit.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love to talk will have to eat their own words.

King James 2000 Bible
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

American King James Version
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

American Standard Version
Death and life are in the power of the tongue; And they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: they that love it, shall eat the fruits thereof.

Darby Bible Translation
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

English Revised Version
Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Webster's Bible Translation
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit of it.

World English Bible
Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

Young's Literal Translation
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.
Lexicon
Death
maveth  (maw'-veth)
death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin -- (be) dead(-ly), death, die(-d).
and life
chay  (khah'-ee)
age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, + merry, multitude, + (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
are in the power
yad  (yawd)
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.),
of the tongue
lashown  (law-shone')
the tongue (of man or animals), used literally (as the instrument of licking, eating, or speech), and figuratively (speech, an ingot, a fork of flame, a cove of water)
and they that love
'ahab  (aw-hab')
to have affection for (sexually or otherwise) -- (be-)love(-d, -ly, -r), like, friend.
it shall eat
'akal  (aw-kal')
to eat -- at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, freely, in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, quite.
the fruit
priy  (per-ee')
fruit -- bough, (first-) fruit(-ful), reward.
thereof
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