THEOSISProverbs 15:4Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
A peaceable tongue is a tree of life: but that which is immoderate, shall crush the spirit.
מַרְפֵּ֣א לָ֭שׁוֹן עֵ֣ץ חַיִּ֑ים וְסֶ֥לֶף בָּ֝֗הּ שֶׁ֣בֶר בְּרֽוּחַ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 12:18There is that promiseth, and is pricked as it were with a sword of conscience: but the tongue of the wise is health.
- Prov 16:24Well ordered words are as a honeycomb: sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
- Prov 18:8The words of the double tongued are as if they were harmless: and they reach even to the inner parts of the bowels. Fear casteth down the slothful: and the souls of the effeminate shall be hungry.
- Prov 3:18She is a tree of life to them that lay hold on her: and he that shall retain her is blessed.
- Mal 4:2But unto you that fear my name, the Sun of justice shall arise, and health in his wings: and you shall go forth, and shall leap like calves of the herd.
- Prov 18:14The spirit of a man upholdeth his infirmity: but a spirit that is easily angered, who can bear?
- Rev 2:7He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches: To him that overcometh I will give to eat of the tree of life which is in the paradise of my God.
- 1 Tim 6:3If any man teach otherwise and consent not to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and to that doctrine which is according to godliness,