Proverbs 15:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: But perverseness therein is a breaking of the spirit.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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)

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

Common English Bible

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

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

A peaceable tongue is a tree of life: but that which is immoderate, shall crush the spirit.

Proverbs 15:4 Cross References

Psalm 109:22

For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.

Proverbs 10:11

The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life: But violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

Proverbs 12:18

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

Proverbs 15:3

The eyes of the LORD are in every place, Keeping watch upon the evil and the good.

Proverbs 15:5

A fool despiseth his father's correction: But he that regardeth reproof getteth prudence.

Proverbs 16:24

Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Proverbs 18:14

The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; But a broken spirit who can bear?

Proverbs 18:8

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

Proverbs 26:22

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

Proverbs 3:18

She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: And happy is every one that retaineth her.

Malachi 4:2

But unto you that fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and gambol as calves of the stall.

1 Timothy 6:3

If any man teacheth a different doctrine, and consenteth not to sound words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;

Revelation 2:7

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. To him that overcometh, to him will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.