“Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit” (Proverbs 18:21, NKJV). This verse doesn’t treat words as merely descriptive. It treats them as genuinely powerful, capable of producing death or life.
Eating its fruit suggests consequence, not just for the hearer, but for the speaker too. Words come back around to shape the one who speaks them.
That’s worth remembering in a heated moment, when a sharp word feels justified. The fruit of that word doesn’t stay contained to the person it’s aimed at.
What fruit have your words been producing lately, and is it the kind you’d actually want to eat yourself?