⁴ A comforting tongue is a tree of life, but a twisted tongue is a crushing of the spirit.

¹⁸ She is a tree of life to all who take her in their hands, and happy is everyone who keeps her.

²⁴ Pleasing words are like honey, sweet to the soul and new life to the bones.

¹⁸ There are some whose uncontrolled talk is like the wounds of a sword, but the tongue of the wise makes one well again.

³ If any man gives different teaching, not in agreement with the true words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the teaching which is in agreement with true religion,

² But to you who give worship to my name, the sun of righteousness will come up with new life in its wings; and you will go out, playing like young oxen full of food.

¹⁴ The spirit of a man will be his support when he is ill; but how may a broken spirit be lifted up?

⁸ The words of one who says evil of his neighbour secretly are like sweet food, and go down into the inner parts of the stomach.

²² For I am poor and in need, and my heart is wounded in me.

² Purposing destruction, using deceit; your tongue is like a sharp blade.

³ You have more love for evil than for good, for deceit than for works of righteousness. (Selah.)

⁴ Destruction is in all your words, O false tongue.

²² And the Lord God said, Now the man has become like one of us, having knowledge of good and evil; and now if he puts out his hand and takes of the fruit of the tree of life, he will go on living for ever.

²³ So the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to be a worker on the earth from which he was taken.

²⁴ So he sent the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden he put winged ones and a flaming sword turning every way to keep the way to the tree of life.

⁷ He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give of the fruit of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.

²² The words of one who says evil of his neighbour secretly are like sweet food, they go down into the inner parts of the stomach.