Proverbs 18:21

American King James Version (1999)

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

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 to the hearers.

Colossians 4:6

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

Proverbs 10:31

The mouth of the just brings forth wisdom: but the fraudulent 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, said the LORD; and I will heal him.

Proverbs 11:30

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that wins 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 smell of death to death; and to the other the smell of life to life. And who is sufficient for these things?

Proverbs 21:23

Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

Isaiah 3:10

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

Hosea 10:13

You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity; you have eaten the fruit of lies: because you did trust in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.

Psalm 12:5

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, said the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffs at him.