the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Proverbs 18:21
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Death and life are in the power of the tongue; And those that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
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 they that love it shall eat the fruit of it.
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 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 those who love it will eat its fruits.
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 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.
Words can bring death or life! Talk too much, and you will eat everything you say.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue; And they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and those to whom it is dear will have its fruit for their food.
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 love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
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 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.
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 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 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, 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 will eat its fruits.
Death and life are in the instrument 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 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.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
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.
Death and life [are] in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.
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.
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
But the Lord came down to look at the city and the tower the people were building.
Come, let's go down and confuse the people with different languages. Then they won't be able to understand each other."
The Lord appeared again to Abraham near the oak grove belonging to Mamre. One day Abraham was sitting at the entrance to his tent during the hottest part of the day.
Suppose you find fifty righteous people living there in the city—will you still sweep it away and not spare it for their sakes?
So I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and lead them out of Egypt into their own fertile and spacious land. It is a land flowing with milk and honey—the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live.
For the Lord had told Moses to tell them, "You are a stubborn and rebellious people. If I were to travel with you for even a moment, I would destroy you. Remove your jewelry and fine clothes while I decide what to do with you."
Remember how the Lord your God led you through the wilderness for these forty years, humbling you and testing you to prove your character, and to find out whether or not you would obey his commands.
do not listen to them. The Lord your God is testing you to see if you truly love him with all your heart and soul.
"The Lord , the Mighty One, is God! The Lord , the Mighty One, is God! He knows the truth, and may Israel know it, too! We have not built the altar in treacherous rebellion against the Lord . If we have done so, do not spare our lives this day.
No darkness is thick enough to hide the wicked from his eyes.
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.
