There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.
A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.
And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell. For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
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.
Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.
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.
A man who bears false witness against his neighbor is like a war club, or a sword, or a sharp arrow.
The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so the hearts of fools.
A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a faithful envoy brings healing.
The tongue of the righteous is choice silver; the heart of the wicked is of little worth. The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of sense.
For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh.
who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows,
through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
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.
There they are, bellowing with their mouths with swords in their lips— for “Who,” they think, “will hear us?”
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