Proverbs 15:4

WEB

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

KJV

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

BSB

⁴A soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.

FBV

⁴Gentle words are a source^[+] of life, but telling lies does a lot of damage.

Extra References

Proverbs 16:24

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

Proverbs 12:18

¹⁸There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

Proverbs 18:8

⁸The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.

Malachi 4:2

²But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out and leap like calves of the stall.

Proverbs 3:18

¹⁸She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

Proverbs 18:14

¹⁴A man’s spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?

Revelation 2:7

⁷He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.

Proverbs 26:22

²²The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, they go down into the innermost parts.

Psalms 109:22

²²for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.

²²The LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever—” ²³Therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. ²⁴So he drove out the man; and he placed cherubim^[+] at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.