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

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

My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully.

The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.

The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth. The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.

A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.

Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.

Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?

And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.

And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.

In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.