Proverbs 15:4 Says, “A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.”
By looking at the words in this verse will helps us get a deeper meaning.
Words to describe “Wholesome” – good, good for you, healing, health. Wholesome is a word that gives you a sense of peace, trust, and comes with positiveness in the thing or person that the word was used to describe.
Words to describe “Perverseness” – wrong, persistent in doing wrong, deliberate, obstinate – not willing to change even though wrong, stubborn.
When we study words, the word is revealed and we can see more than what we may have thought the word meant. The meaning of the word reveals the depth of why the word was used and can give us a deeper understanding of the subject talked about.
Reading the verse found in Proverbs 15:4, we understand by studying these two words why it says, one is a tree of life, and the other, is a breach in the spirit.
To have a wholesome tongue is uplifting and refreshing. Yet, to have perverseness destroys the soul, and unpleasant to be around, which is the total opposite of wholesome.
Choose to have a wholesome tongue with the words that you speak.
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