Proverbs 12:18

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

⁴A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

⁴My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

⁶And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.^7[+] For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and sea creature is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind; ⁸but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

²Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

²⁰The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver. The heart of the wicked is of little worth. ²¹The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.

³³“Those who are wise among the people will instruct many; yet they will fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder, many days.

¹⁸A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.

⁷The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so with the heart of fools.

²²For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body.