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New American Standard Bible
Proverbs 15:4
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The tongue that heals is a tree of life,but a devious tongue breaks the spirit.
A gentle tongue is a tree of life, But deceit in it crushes the spirit.
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.
As a tree gives fruit, healing words give life, but dishonest words crush the spirit.
A soothing tongue [speaking words that build up and encourage] is a tree of life, But a perversive tongue [speaking words that overwhelm and depress] crushes the spirit.
A gentle tongue is a tree of life, But deceit in it crushes the spirit.
A wholesome tongue is as a tree of life: but the frowardnes therof is the breaking of ye minde.
A tongue that brings healing is a tree of life,But perversion in it breaks the spirit.
A soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.
Kind words are good medicine, but deceitful words can really hurt.
A soothing tongue is a tree of life, but when it twists things, it breaks the spirit.
Gentleness of tongue is a tree of life; but crookedness therein is a breaking of the spirit.
Kind words are like a life-giving tree, but lying words will crush your spirit.
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life, and he who eats of its fruit shall be filled with it.
Kind words bring life, but cruel words crush your spirit.
Gentleness of tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it causes a break in spirit.
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it is a break of the spirit.
A wholsome tonge is a tre of life, but he that abuseth it, hath a broken mynde.
A gentle tongue is a tree of life; But perverseness therein is a breaking of the spirit.
A comforting tongue is a tree of life, but a twisted tongue is a crushing of the spirit.
A soothing tongue is a tree of life; but perverseness therein is a wound to the spirit.
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but peruersnesse therein is a breach in the spirit.
A wholsome tongue is a tree of lyfe: but the frowardnesse therof doth make sad the spirite.
The wholesome tongue is a tree of life, and he that keeps it shall be filled with understanding.
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breaking of the spirit.
A plesaunt tunge is the tre of lijf; but the tunge which is vnmesurable, schal defoule the spirit.
A gentle tongue is a tree of life; But perverseness therein is a breaking of the spirit.
A wholesome tongue [is] a tree of life: but perverseness in it [is] a breach in the spirit.
Speech that heals is like a life-giving tree, but a perverse tongue breaks the spirit.
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life, But perverseness in it breaks the spirit.
Gentle words are a tree of life; a deceitful tongue crushes the spirit.
A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but a sinful tongue crushes the spirit.
A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.
Gentleness of the tongue, is a tree of life, but, crookedness therein, a grievous wound in the spirit.
A peaceable tongue is a tree of life: but that which is immoderate, shall crush the spirit.
A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.
A healed tongue [is] a tree of life, And perverseness in it -- a breach in the spirit.
Kind words heal and help; cutting words wound and maim.
A soothing tongue is a tree of life, But perversion in it crushes the spirit.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
A wholesome: Heb. The healing of the, Proverbs 12:18, Proverbs 16:24, Malachi 4:2
a tree: Proverbs 3:18, Genesis 3:22-24, 1 Timothy 6:3, Revelation 2:7
a breach: Proverbs 18:8, Proverbs 18:14, Proverbs 26:22, Psalms 52:2-4, Psalms 109:22
Reciprocal: Proverbs 10:20 - tongue Proverbs 10:21 - feed Proverbs 11:30 - fruit Matthew 12:35 - good man Colossians 4:6 - your
Cross-References
"I will bless her, and indeed I will give you a son by her. Then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her."
But God said to Abraham, "Do not be distressed because of the boy and your slave woman; whatever Sarah tells you, listen to her, for through Isaac your descendants shall be named.
"When your days are finished and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come from you, and I will establish his kingdom.
Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants, "Behold, my son who came out of my own body seeks my life; how much more now this Benjaminite? Leave him alone and let him curse, for the LORD has told him.
And the LORD sent an angel who destroyed every warrior, commander, and officer in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned in shame to his own land. And when he had entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons killed him there with the sword.
And you, brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children of promise.
I have sent him back to you in person, that is, sending my very heart,
Gill's Notes on the Bible
A wholesome tongue [is] a tree of life,.... A tongue that delivers out salutary instructions, wholesome advice and counsel; a "healing tongue" w, as it may be rendered, which pacifies contending parties, and heals the divisions between them; to have the benefit of such a man's company and conversation is like being in paradise. Such is the tongue of a Gospel minister, which delivers out the wholesome words of our Lord Jesus Christ; sound speech and doctrines, which cannot be condemned; healing truths to wounded consciences, such as peace, pardon, righteousness, and atonement by the blood of Christ. These are the means of quickening dead sinners, reviving and comforting distressed ones, and show the way of eternal life unto them;
but perverseness therein [is] a breach in the spirit; impure, unchaste, unsavoury, and corrupt language, does mischief to the spirits of men; evil communications corrupt the heart and manners, defile the soul and the conversation; these and unsound doctrines eat as a canker; and as they make the heart of God's people sad, whom he would not have made sad; so they bring distress and despair into the spirits of others, and make sad wounds and breaches there, which are never healed, and that both in the spirits of speakers and hearers; for damnable heresies bring swift destruction on the propagators of them, and them that receive them.
w מרפא "sanans", so some in Vatablus.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
A wholesome tongue - literally, as in the margin, the same word as “sound” in Proverbs 14:30 (see the note). A more literal rendering would be soundness of speech.
Tree of life - Compare Proverbs 3:18 note.
Breach in the spirit - With the sense of vexation (compare Isaiah 65:14).
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 15:4. A wholesome tongue is a tree of life — Here again is an allusion to the paradisiacal tree, עץ חיים ets chaiyim, "the tree of lives."
