Proverbs 15:4

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

Proverbs 12:18

There is he who speaks rashly like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise is health.

Proverbs 16:24

Pleasant words are a honeycomb: Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Proverbs 18:8

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

Malachi 4:2

But to you who fear my name the sun of righteousness shall arise with healing in its wings, and ye shall go forth, and frolic as calves of the stall.

Proverbs 3:18

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold upon her. And happy is everyone who retains her.

Proverbs 18:14

The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity, but a broken spirit who can bear?

Revelation 2:7

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the congregations. To him who overcomes, I will give him to eat from the tree of life that is in the midst of the Paradise of my God.

1 Timothy 6:3

If any man teaches something different, and does not associate with wholesome words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine according to piety,

Proverbs 26:22

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

Psalm 109:22

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

Proverbs 15:3

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

Proverbs 15:5

A fool despises his father's correction, but he who regards reproof gets prudence.

Proverbs 10:11

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