4A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
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There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
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.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4)Note, 1. A good tongue is healing, healing to wounded consciences by comforting them, to sin-sick souls by convincing them, to peace and love when it is broken by accommodating differences, compromising matters in variance, and reconciling parties at variance; this is the healing of the tongue, which is a tree of life , the leaves of which have a sanative virtue, Rev. 22:2. He that knows how to di…
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