⁴ A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

¹⁸ She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.

²⁴ Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

¹⁸ There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

³ If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;

² But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

¹⁴ The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

⁸ The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

²² For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

² The tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

³ Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.

⁴ Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

²² And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

²³ Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

²⁴ So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

⁷ He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

²² The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.