Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
A soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.
My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts—with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues ar
Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the cou
The tongue of the righteous is choice silver, but the heart of the wicked has little worth.
Those with insight will instruct many, though for a time they will fall by sword or flame, or be captured or plundered.
The lips of the wise spread knowledge, but not so the hearts of fools.
Like a club or sword or sharp arrow is a man who bears false witness against his neighbor.
For they are life to those who find them, and health to the whole body.
A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a faithful envoy brings healing.
who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,
See what they spew from their mouths—sharp words from their lips: “For who can hear us?”
down the middle of the main street of the city. On either side of the river stood a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds o
He held in His right hand seven stars, and a sharp double-edged sword came from His mouth. His face was like the sun shi