⁴ A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

¹⁸ There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

²⁴ Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

⁸ The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

² But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

¹⁸ She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.

¹⁴ The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

⁷ He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

³ If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;

²² The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.