A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.
⛓ Read Proverbs 15 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Let no corrupt speech... but such as is good for building up... that it may give grace' echoes wisdom's 'a gentle tongue is a tree of life' (cf. 10:31-32, 12:18). Volume is low and the tongue-ethics field is diffuse, so the echo is faint though coherent with the speech-edification theme.
Low confidence'A gentle tongue is a tree of life' — wisdom's tree-and-speech imagery; faint background to the good/corrupt tree and its fruit of words.
Low confidence