1. And as sharp as a two-edged sword.

2. (b) How is God’s word “sharper than any two-edged sword”?

3. But undermining or destroying someone’s self-respect is a two-edged sword.

4. Yet, our natural desire for such approval can be a two-edged sword.

5. □ How is God’s word alive, powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword?

6. 16 The message in God’s written Word is “sharper than any two-edged sword.”

7. (Hebrews 4:12) Yes, God’s word, or message, is “sharper than any two-edged sword.”

8. The aftereffects of immorality are as bitter as wormwood and as sharp as a two-edged sword —painful and death dealing.

9. However, warns Solomon: “The aftereffect from her is as bitter as wormwood; it is as sharp as a two-edged sword.”

10. But the aftereffect from her is as bitter as wormwood; it is as sharp as a two-edged sword.” —Proverbs 5:3, 4.

11. Why does Proverbs 5:3, 4 speak of the aftereffects of immorality as being “bitter as wormwood” and “as sharp as a two-edged sword”?

12. (Numbers 14:39-45) Jehovah’s word is sharper than any two-edged sword, and anyone deliberately ignoring it is certain to reap the consequences.—Galatians 6:7-9.

13. 28 He may painfully be brought to realize concerning the immoral woman with whom he became one flesh that “the aftereffect from her is as bitter as wormwood; it is as sharp as a two-edged sword.

14. Analogizing new and established claims may cast a shadow on the established claim.2 This "two-edged sword" aspect of use of analogy can be seen in the decisions of the courts dealing with issues of workplace harassment

15. Paul wrote: “The word of God is alive and exerts power and is sharper than any two-edged sword and pierces even to the dividing of soul and spirit, and of joints and their marrow, and is able to discern thoughts and intentions of the heart.”