Proverbs 15:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ 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 pierced within me.

Proverbs 10:11

The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.

Proverbs 12:18

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

Proverbs 15:3

The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

Proverbs 15:5

A fool despises a parent’s instruction, but the one who heeds admonition is prudent.

Proverbs 16:24

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

Proverbs 18:14

The human spirit will endure sickness, but a broken spirit—who can bear?

Proverbs 18:8

The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.

Proverbs 26:22

The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.

Proverbs 3:18

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her; those who hold her fast are called happy.

Malachi 4:2

But for you who revere my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.

1 Timothy 6:3

Whoever teaches otherwise and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that is in accordance with godliness

Revelation 2:7

Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To everyone who conquers, I will give permission to eat from the tree of life that is in the paradise of God.