Proverbs 15:4
A soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.
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a wholesome

Proverbs 12:18
Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Proverbs 16:24
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.

Malachi 4:2
"But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.

a tree

Proverbs 3:18
She is a tree of life to those who embrace her, and those who lay hold of her are blessed.

Genesis 3:22-24
Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..." . . .

1 Timothy 6:3
If anyone teaches another doctrine and disagrees with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and with godly teaching,

Revelation 2:7
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will grant the right to eat from the tree of life in the paradise of God.

a breach

Proverbs 18:8, 14
A gossip's words are like choice morsels, and they sink into the inmost being. . . .

Proverbs 26:22
The words of a gossip are like choice morsels that go down to the inmost being.

Psalm 52:2-4
Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit. . . .

Psalm 109:22
For I am poor and needy; my heart is wounded within me.

Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
A soothing tongue is a tree of life, But perversion in it crushes the spirit.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The tongue that heals is a tree of life, but a devious tongue breaks the spirit.

International Standard Version
A gentle statement is a tree of life, but perverted speech shatters the spirit.

NET Bible
Speech that heals is like a life-giving tree, but a perverse tongue breaks the spirit.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The tree of life is the healing of the tongue, and he that eats its fruit will be filled by it.
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