A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.
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.
The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.
But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.
She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her; those who hold her fast are called blessed.
A man's spirit will endure sickness, but a crushed spirit who can bear?
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.’
If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness,
The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is stricken within me.
Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit. You love evil more than good, and lying more than speaking what is right. Selah You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.
Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—” therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.
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