Proverbs 12:18 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁸ There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: But the tongue of the wise is health.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ There are those who speak rashly, like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ There is that speaketh rashly like the piercings of a sword; But the tongue of the wise is health.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Some chatter on like a stabbing sword, but a wise tongue heals.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ He who makes promises is also jabbed, as if with a sword, in conscience. But the tongue of the wise is reasonable.

Proverbs 12:18 Krydshenvisninger

Psalm 52:2

you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery.

Psalm 57:4

I lie in the midst of lions that greedily devour the sons of men; their teeth are spears and arrows, their tongues sharp swords.

Psalm 57:5

Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let thy glory be over all the earth!

Psalm 59:7

There they are, bellowing with their mouths, and snarling with their lips— for “Who,” they think, “will hear us?”

Psalm 64:3

who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows,

Proverbs 12:17

He who speaks the truth gives honest evidence, but a false witness utters deceit.

Proverbs 13:17

A bad messenger plunges men into trouble, but a faithful envoy brings healing.

Proverbs 15:4

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.

Proverbs 15:7

The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so the minds of fools.

Proverbs 16:24

Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.

Proverbs 25:18

A man who bears false witness against his neighbor is like a war club, or a sword, or a sharp arrow.

Proverbs 4:22

For they are life to him who finds them, and healing to all his flesh.

Daniel 11:33

And those among the people who are wise shall make many understand, though they shall fall by sword and flame, by captivity and plunder, for some days.

Revelation 1:16

in his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth issued a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining in full strength.

Revelation 22:2

through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.