A wholesome tongue is a tree of life, But perverseness in it breaks the spirit.

温良的舌是生命树；乖谬的嘴使人心碎。

温良的舌是生命树；邪恶的舌使人心碎。

温良的舌是生命树；邪恶的舌使人心碎。

温和的言词带来生命，乖谬的话语伤透人心。

说安慰话的舌头是生命树；奸恶的舌头使人心碎。

使人痊愈的舌头，就是生命树；奸恶的舌头，使心灵破碎。

溫良的舌是生命樹；乖謬的嘴使人心碎。

溫良的舌是生命樹；邪惡的舌使人心碎。

溫良的舌是生命樹；邪惡的舌使人心碎。

溫和的言詞帶來生命，乖謬的話語傷透人心。

說安慰話的舌頭是生命樹；奸惡的舌頭使人心碎。

溫良的口舌是生命樹；在那上頭乖戾的、能使人心碎。

使人痊癒的舌頭，就是生命樹；奸惡的舌頭，使心靈破碎。

溫良之舌、乃生命之樹、乖謬之詞、乃摧折人心、

良言猶生命之樹、厲語猶毀物之風。

溫良之言、猶如生命之樹、暴戾之辭、使人心傷、

The soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.

A tongue that calms is like a tree of life. But a tongue that tells lies produces a broken spirit.

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.

Gentle words are a tree of life; a deceitful tongue crushes the spirit.

The tongue that heals is a tree of life, but a devious tongue breaks the spirit.

A soothing tongue is a tree of life, But perversion in it crushes the spirit.

A gentle tongue is a tree of life; But perverseness therein is a breaking of the spirit.

The tongue that heals is a tree of life, but a devious tongue breaks the spirit.

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

Speech that heals is like a life-giving tree, but a perverse tongue breaks the spirit.

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

There is one who speaks like the piercings of a sword, But the tongue of the wise promotes health.

Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, Sweetness to the soul and health to the bones.

The words of a talebearer are like tasty trifles, And they go down into the inmost body.

She is a tree of life to those who take hold of her, And happy are all who retain her.

But to you who fear My name The Sun of Righteousness shall arise With healing in His wings; And you shall go out And grow fat like stall-fed calves.

The spirit of a man will sustain him in sickness, But who can bear a broken spirit?

The words of a talebearer are like tasty trifles, And they go down into the inmost body.

Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.You love evil more than good, Lying rather than speaking righteousness. SelahYou love all devouring words, You deceitful tongue.

For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.

If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which accords with godliness,

Then the Lord God said,“ Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”—therefore the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken.So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

“ He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God.”’