Proverbs 15:4
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A soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.
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Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
The words of a gossip are like choice morsels that go down into the inmost being.
“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.
She is a tree of life to those who embrace her, and those who lay hold of her are blessed.
The spirit of a man can endure his sickness, but who can survive a broken spirit?
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to eat from the tree of life in the Paradise of God.
For I am poor and needy; my heart is wounded within me.
The words of a gossip are like choice morsels that go down into the inmost being.
If anyone teaches another doctrine and disagrees with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and with godly teaching,