Proverbs 12:18

The English Standar Version

There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Cross References

Psalm 52:2

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.

Psalm 57:4

My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down amid fiery beasts -- the children of man, whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.

Psalm 57:5

Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let your glory be over all the earth!

Psalm 59:7

There they are, bellowing with their mouths with swords in their lips -- for "Who," they think,[2] "will hear us?"

Psalm 64:3

who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows,

Proverbs 12:17

Whoever speaks[1] the truth gives honest evidence, but a false witness utters deceit.

Proverbs 13:17

A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a faithful envoy brings healing.

Proverbs 15:4

A gentle[1] tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.

Proverbs 15:7

The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so the hearts of fools.[2]

Proverbs 16:24

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

Proverbs 25:18

A man who bears false witness against his neighbor is like a war club, or a sword, or a sharp arrow.

Proverbs 4:22

For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their[2] flesh.

Daniel 11:33

And the wise among the people shall make many understand, though for some days they shall stumble by sword and flame, by captivity and plunder.

Revelation 1:16

In his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining in full strength.

Revelation 22:2

through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life[2] with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.