Cross references

Proverbs 15:4

A soothing tongue is a tree of life,

but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.

Proverbs 15:4 BSB

Proverbs 15:4 has 12 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 12 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Proverbs 16:24 (20 votes) and Proverbs 12:18 (18 votes). 10 other verses point back to it. It links with 8 other books, from Genesis 3 to Revelation 2.

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Which verses does Proverbs 15:4 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.

  2. Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

  3. The words of a gossip are like choice morsels that go down into the inmost being.

  4. She is a tree of life to those who embrace her, and those who lay hold of her are blessed.

  5. Malachi 4:212 votes

    “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.

  6. The spirit of a man can endure his sickness, but who can survive a broken spirit?

  7. 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.

  8. Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit. You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah …

  9. The words of a gossip are like choice morsels that go down into the inmost being.

  10. Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...” Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. …

Which verses point to Proverbs 15:4?

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