Proverbs 15:4 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

⁴ A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: But perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ A gentle tongue [with its healing power] is a tree of life, but willful contrariness in it breaks down the spirit.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ A gentle tongue is a tree of life; But perverseness therein is a breaking of the spirit.

Common English Bible

⁴ Wholesome speech is a tree of life, but dishonest talk breaks the spirit.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ A peaceful tongue is a tree of life. But that which is immoderate will crush the spirit.

Proverbs 15:4 Cross References

Psalm 109:22

for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.

Proverbs 10:11

The mouth of the righteous is a spring of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

Proverbs 12:18

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

Proverbs 15:3

The LORD's eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

Proverbs 15:5

A fool despises his father's correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.

Proverbs 16:24

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Proverbs 18:14

A man's spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?

Proverbs 18:8

The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person's innermost parts.

Proverbs 26:22

The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, they go down into the innermost parts.

Proverbs 3:18

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

Malachi 4:2

But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

1 Timothy 6:3

If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn't consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,

Revelation 2:7

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.