7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• Eph 4:31 — Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
• Lev 19:16 — Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.
• Prov 12:18 — There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
• Prov 15:4 — A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
• Prov 16:28 — A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
• Prov 16:28 — A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
• Prov 20:19 — He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
• Prov 26:20 — Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
• Prov 26:22 — The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
• Ps 52:2 — Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
• Ps 64:3 — Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words: