Proverbs 15:4 Cross References - LEB

⁴ Gentleness* of tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it* causes a break in spirit.

²² And Yahweh God said, "Look—the man has become as one of us, to know good and evil. _⌊What if_⌋* he stretches out his hand and takes also from the tree of life and eats, and lives forever?" ²³ And Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. ²⁴ So* he drove the man out, and placed cherubim east of the garden of Eden, and _⌊a flaming, turning sword_⌋* to guard the way to the tree of life.

² Your tongue plans destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceit. ³ You love evil more than good, a lie more than speaking _⌊what is right_⌋.* Selah ⁴ You love all devouring words, O deceitful tongue,

²² for I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

¹⁸ She is a tree of life for those who seize her; those who take hold of her are considered happy.

¹⁸ There is one who speaks rashly, like the thrust of a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

²⁴ Pleasant sayings are a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and healing to the bones.

⁸ The words of a whisper are like delicious morsels, and they themselves go down to inner parts of the body.

¹⁴ The spirit of a man will endure his sickness, but a broken spirit, who may bear it?

²² The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels, and they go down to the inner parts of the body.

² But for you who revere* my name, the sun of righteousness will rise, with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like _⌊fattened calves_⌋.*

³ If anyone teaches other doctrine and does not devote himself to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that is in accordance with godliness,

⁷ The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will grant to him to eat from the tree of life which is in the paradise of God.'