The source
Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.
⛓ Read Proverbs 18 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.
Matt 12:31-37
'Death and life are in the power of the tongue' — words carry decisive judicial weight, coherent with 'by your words... justified... condemned.'
Medium confidenceJas 3:9-12 ?
'Death and life are in the power of the tongue' undergirds the blessing-and-cursing antithesis as a faint background echo.
Low confidenceElsewhere in Proverbs 18