Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
General references
Bible References
Words
Proverbs 12:18
A slanderous person pricketh like a sword; but a wise man's tongue is wholesome.
Proverbs 16:28
A froward body causeth strife; and he that is a babble of his tongue, maketh division among princes.
Proverbs 26:20
Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out; and where the backbiter is taken away, there the strife ceaseth.
Leviticus 19:16
"'Thou shalt not go up and down a privy accuser among thy people, neither shalt thou help to shed the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.
Psalm 52:2
Thy tongue imagineth wickedness, and with lies it cutteth like a sharp razor.
Psalm 64:3
who have whet their tongue like a sword, and shoot out their arrows, even bitter words,
General references
Deuteronomy 22:14
and lay shameful things unto her charge and bring up an evil name upon her and say, 'I took this wife, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid':
1 Samuel 24:9
and said to Saul, "Wherefore giveth thou an ear to men's words, that say, 'David seeketh thee evil?'