Proverbs 26:20
For lack of wood the fire goes out,
And where there is no whisperer [who gossips], contention quiets down.
Proverbs 16:28
A perverse man spreads strife,
And one who gossips separates intimate friends.
Proverbs 22:10
Drive out the scoffer, and contention will go away;
Even strife and dishonor will cease.
James 3:6
And the tongue is [in a sense] a fire, the very world of injustice and unrighteousness; the tongue is set among our members as that which contaminates the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life [the cycle of man’s existence], and is itself set on fire by
Proverbs 26:22
The words of a whisperer (gossip) are like dainty morsels [to be greedily eaten];
They go down into the innermost chambers of the body [to be remembered and mused upon].
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Drive out the scoffer, and contention will go away;
Even strife and dishonor will cease.