Proverbs 12:18 Cross References - MSB

¹⁸ Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

² Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.

⁴ My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts—with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.

⁷ See what they spew from their mouths—sharp words from their lips: “For who can hear us?”

³ who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,

²² For they are life to those who find them, and health to the whole body.

²⁰ The tongue of the righteous is choice silver, but the heart of the wicked has little worth. ²¹ The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of judgment.

¹⁷ A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a faithful envoy brings healing.

⁴ A soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.

⁷ The lips of the wise spread knowledge, but not so the hearts of fools.

²⁴ Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.

¹⁸ Like a club or sword or sharp arrow is a man who bears false witness against his neighbor.

³³ Those with insight will instruct many, though for a time they will fall by sword or flame, or be captured or plundered.

⁶ The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell. ⁷ All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and creatures of the sea are being tamed and have been tamed by man, ⁸ but no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

¹⁶ He held in His right hand seven stars, and a sharp double-edged sword came from His mouth. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.

² down the middle of the main street of the city. On either side of the river stood a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit and yielding a fresh crop for each month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.