Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
Death and life are in the power of the tongue,.... Of witnesses, according to the testimony they bear; of judges, according to the sentence they pass; of teachers, according to the doctrine they…
Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714
Matthew Henry
Note, 1. A man may do a great deal of good, or a great deal of hurt, both to others and to himself, according to the use he makes of his tongue. Many a one has been his own death by a foul tongue, or…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
love it i.e. delight in using it, as an instrument either of "death" or of "life."
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