Proverbs Chapter 18 verse 21 Holy Bible
Death and life are in the power of the tongue; And they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
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Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and those to whom it is dear will have its fruit for their food.
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Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
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Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
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Death and life are in the power of the tongue; Those who love it will eat its fruit.
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Death and life `are' in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.
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Proverbs 18 : 21 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 21. - Death and life are in the power of the tongue; literally, in the hand of the tongue. The tongue, according as it is used, deals forth life or death; for speech is the picture of the mind (comp. Proverbs 12:18; Proverbs 26:28). The vast importance of our words may be learned from James 3; and our blessed Lord says expressly (Matthew 12:36, etc.), "Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned." Hence the gnome - Γλῶσσα τύχη γλῶσσα δαίμων intimating that the tongue is the real controller of man's destiny; and another - Λόγῳ διοικεῖται βροτῶν βίος μόνῳ . . .
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(21) Death and life are in the power of the tongue.--See above on Proverbs 4:23, where much the same power is attributed to the heart as is here given to the tongue as being its exponent. (Comp. also Proverbs 12:13.)They that love it--i.e., to use it.