Proverbs 12:18 - King James 2000

¹⁸ There is one that speaks like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise brings health.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: But the tongue of the wise is health.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ There are those who speak rashly, like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ There is that speaketh rashly like the piercings of a sword; But the tongue of the wise is health.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Some chatter on like a stabbing sword, but a wise tongue heals.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ He who makes promises is also jabbed, as if with a sword, in conscience. But the tongue of the wise is reasonable.

Proverbs 12:18 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 52:2

Your tongue devises evil; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Psalm 57:4

My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Psalm 57:5

Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let your glory be above all the earth.

Psalm 59:7

Behold, they bellow out with their mouths: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, does hear?

Psalm 64:3

Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

Proverbs 12:17

He that speaks truth shows forth righteousness: but a false witness, deceit.

Proverbs 13:17

A wicked messenger falls into trouble: but a faithful ambassador is health.

Proverbs 15:4

A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

Proverbs 15:7

The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish does not so.

Proverbs 16:24

Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Proverbs 25:18

A man that bears false witness against his neighbor is a club, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.

Proverbs 4:22

For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

Daniel 11:33

And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by plunder, many days.

Revelation 1:16

And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp two edged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shines in its strength.

Revelation 22:2

In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bore twelve manner of fruit, and yielded its fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.