Proverbs 18:21 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

²¹ Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ Death and life are in the power of the tongue: And they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it [for death or life]. [Matt. 12:37.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ Death and life are in the power of the tongue; And they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Common English Bible

²¹ Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ Death and life are in the power of the tongue. Whoever values it shall eat from its fruits.

Proverbs 18:21 Cross References

Ephesians 4:29

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

Colossians 4:6

Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

Proverbs 10:31

The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.

Proverbs 12:13

The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.

Isaiah 57:19

I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the Lord; and I will heal him.

Proverbs 11:30

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.

2 Peter 2:18

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

2 Corinthians 11:15

Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

2 Corinthians 2:16

to the one we are the savor of death unto death; and to the other the savor of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

Proverbs 21:23

Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue, keepeth his soul from troubles.

Isaiah 3:10

Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

Hosea 10:13

Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.

Psalm 12:5

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.