Proverbs 12:18 Cross References - LEB

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

² Your tongue plans destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceit.

⁴ My soul is among lions. I lie down among those who devour— the children* of humankind whose teeth are spears and arrows and whose tongues are sharp swords.

⁷ Look, they pour out talk with their mouth. Swords are on their lips, for they say, "Who hears?"

³ who sharpen their tongue like a sword. They bend their bow to shoot their arrows—bitter words,

²² For they are life to those who find them and healing _⌊to the entire body_⌋.*

²⁰ Choice silver is a tongue of righteousness, a heart* of wickedness is _⌊of little worth_⌋.* ²¹ Lips of righteousness feed many, but fools _⌊die for lack of sense_⌋.*

¹⁷ A messenger of wickedness will fall into trouble, but an envoy of the faithful brings healing.

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

⁷ The lips of the wise will spread knowledge, but the heart* of fools, not so.

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

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

³³ And those who have insight _⌊will instruct_⌋* the many, but they will fall by sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder _⌊for some time_⌋.*

⁶ And the tongue is a fire! The world of unrighteousness,* the tongue, is set among our members, defiling the whole body and setting on fire _⌊the course of human existence_⌋*, being set on fire by hell. ⁷ For every species of animals and birds, of reptiles and sea creatures, is being tamed and has been tamed by the human species, ⁸ but no human being is able to tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

¹⁶ and he had in his right hand seven stars, and a sharp double-edged sword coming out of his mouth, and his face was like the sun shining in its strength.

² in the middle of its street, and _⌊on both sides of the river_⌋* is the tree of life, producing twelve fruits—yielding its fruit according to every month—and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.