Proverbs 16:28

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Summary

Proverbs 16:28

A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.

Froward

A whisperer

2 Corinthians 12:20

General references

1 Samuel 24:9

Bible References

Froward

perversity is in his heart; he is always planning mischief; he causes fighting.

A wrathful man stirs up fighting, but one slow to anger calms fighting.

The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

Where there is no wood, the fire goes out; and where there is no talebearer, the fighting ceases.

An angry man stirs up fighting, and a furious man abounds in sin.

Surely the churning of milk brings forth butter, and the wringing of the nose brings forth blood; so the forcing of wrath brings forth fighting.

If anyone teaches otherwise, and does not consent to wholesome words (those of our Lord Jesus Christ), and to the doctrine according to godliness,

But if you have bitter jealousy and strife in your hearts, do not glory and lie against the truth.

A whisperer

He who covers a transgression seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates friends.

Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said to the woman, Is it so that God has said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

And David said to Saul, Why do you hear man's words, saying, Behold, David seeks to do you evil?

being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; being full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, evil habits, becoming whisperers,

For I fear, lest somehow coming I might not find you as I wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you might not wish; lest somehow there be strifes, envyings, angers, contentions, backbitings, whisperings, proud thoughts, tumults;

General references

And David said to Saul, Why do you hear man's words, saying, Behold, David seeks to do you evil?