the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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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 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 it will eat its fruits.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will 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 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; Those who love it will eat its fruit.
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.
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.
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 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 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 stonde in the power of the tonge, he that loueth it, shal enioye the frute therof.
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.
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 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 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 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 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 those who love it will eat its fruits.
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 power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.
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.
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 YHWH comes down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have built;
Give help, let us go down there and confuse their language, so that a man will not understand the language of his companion."
And YHWH appears to him among the oaks of Mamre, and he is sitting at the opening of the tent, about the heat of the day;
Perhaps there are fifty righteous in the midst of the city; do You also consume, and not bear with the place for the sake of the fifty righteous who [are] in its midst?
and I go down to deliver it out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to cause it to go up out of the land to a land good and broad, to a land flowing with milk and honey—to the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
And YHWH says to Moses, "Say to the sons of Israel: You [are] a stiff-necked people; [in] one moment I could come up into your midst and could have consumed you; and now, put down your ornaments from off you, and I know what I do to you";
and you have remembered all the way which your God YHWH has caused you to go these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble you to try you, to know that which [is] in your heart, whether you keep His commands or not.
you do not listen to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer of the dream, for your God YHWH is trying you to know whether you are loving your God YHWH with all your heart and with all your soul;
"The God of gods—YHWH, the God of gods—YHWH, He is knowing, and Israel—he knows, if [we are] in rebellion, and if in trespass against YHWH, do not save us this day!
There is no darkness nor death-shade, || For workers of iniquity to be hidden there;
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.