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Proverbs 18:21
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Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.
Death & life are in the power of ye tongue, and they that loue it, shal eate the fruite thereof.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue,and those who love it will eat its fruit.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue; Those who love it will eat its fruit.
The tongue can speak words that bring life or death. Those who love to talk must be ready to accept what it brings.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it and indulge it will eat its fruit and bear the consequences of their words.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue; And they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Words can bring death or life! Talk too much, and you will eat everything you say.
The tongue has power over life and death; those who indulge it must eat its fruit.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and they that indulge it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and they that loue it shall eate the fruite thereof.
Life and death are in the power of the tongue; and they that rule it shall eat the fruits thereof.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love her will eat of her fruit.
Death and life are in the hand of the tongue, and those who love it shall eat its fruit.
What you say can mean life or death. Those who speak with care will be rewarded.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love its use will eat its fruit.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit.
The tongue can bring death or life; those who love to talk will reap the consequences.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
Death and life, are in the power of the tongue, and, its friends, shall eat its fruits.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: they that love it, shall eat the fruits thereof.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and those who love it shall eat the fruits thereof.
What you say can preserve life or destroy it; so you must accept the consequences of your words.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit.
Death and life are in the instrument of the tongue, and they that loue it, shall eate the fruite thereof.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Deth and lijf ben in the werkis of tunge; thei that louen it, schulen ete the fruytis therof.
Death and life [are] in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue; Those who love it will eat its fruit.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue; And those that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Death and life [are] in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit of it.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and those to whom it is dear will have its fruit for their food.
Death and life stonde in the power of the tonge, he that loueth it, shal enioye the frute therof.
Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit—you choose.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue,And those who love it will eat its fruit.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Death: Proverbs 18:4-7, Proverbs 10:20, Proverbs 10:21, Proverbs 10:31, Proverbs 11:30, Matthew 12:35-37, Romans 10:14, Romans 10:15, 2 Corinthians 2:16, 2 Corinthians 11:15, Ephesians 4:29, Colossians 4:6, Titus 1:10, Titus 1:11, James 3:6-9, 2 Peter 2:18
and: Proverbs 10:19, Ecclesiastes 10:12-14, Isaiah 57:19
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 22:14 - General Job 6:25 - forcible Job 19:2 - break me Psalms 12:3 - proud Psalms 34:13 - Keep Psalms 39:1 - that I Psalms 52:2 - like Psalms 120:4 - Sharp Psalms 140:11 - an evil speaker Proverbs 10:10 - but Proverbs 12:14 - satisfied Proverbs 21:23 - General Ecclesiastes 10:11 - a babbler Jeremiah 18:18 - Come and let us smite Jeremiah 49:16 - terribleness Hosea 10:12 - Sow Hosea 10:13 - eaten James 1:19 - slow to speak James 3:5 - so
Cross-References
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
For the Lord had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.
And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
The Lord God of gods, the Lord God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel he shall know; if it be in rebellion, or if in transgression against the Lord , (save us not this day,)
There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Death and life [are] in the power of the tongue,.... Of witnesses, according to the testimony they bear; of judges, according to the sentence they pass; of teachers, according to the doctrine they preach; of all men, who, by their well or ill speaking, bring death or life to themselves and others. Some, by their tongues, by the too free use of them, or falsehood they utter, are the cause of death to themselves and others; and some, by their silence, or by their prudent speech and prevalent intercession, secure or obtain life for themselves and others; yea, judgment at the last day will proceed according to a man's words, "By thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned", Matthew 12:37; the tongue is the instrument either of a great deal of good, or of a great deal of evil;
and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof; that delight to be talkative; that love to use the tongue, whether in a good or in a bad way, shall accordingly be recompensed; shall enjoy the advantages or disadvantages arising from it.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 18:21. Death and life are in the power of the tongue — This may apply to all men. Many have lost their lives by their tongue, and some have saved their lives by it: but it applies most forcibly to public pleaders; on many of their tongues hangs life or death.
