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Proverbs 12:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

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Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

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American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Common English Bible

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

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Catholic Public Domain Version

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

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Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

There is that promiseth, and is pricked as it were with a sword of conscience: but the tongue of the wise is health.

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Proverbs 12:18
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you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery.


I lie down among lions that greedily devour human prey; their teeth are spears and arrows, their tongues sharp swords.


Be exalted, O God, above the heavens. Let your glory be over all the earth.


There they are, bellowing with their mouths, with sharp words on their lips, for “Who,” they think, “will hear us?”


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


Whoever speaks the truth gives honest evidence, but a false witness speaks deceitfully.


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


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


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


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


Like a war club, a sword, or a sharp arrow is one who bears false witness against a neighbor.


For they are life to those who find them and healing to all their flesh.


The wise among the people shall give understanding to many; for some days, however, they shall fall by sword and flame and suffer captivity and plunder.


In his right hand he held seven stars, and from his mouth came a sharp, two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining with full force.


through the middle of the street of the city. On either side of the river is the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, producing its fruit each month, and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.