Proverbs 26:20
Where no wood is, the fire goeth out; and where there is no talebearer, the contention ceaseth.
Proverbs 16:28
A false man soweth contention; and a talebearer separateth very friends.
Proverbs 22:10
Cast out the scorner, and contention will depart, and strife and ignominy shall cease.
James 3:6
and the tongue is fire, the world of unrighteousness; the tongue is set in our members, the defiler of the whole body, and which sets fire to the course of nature, and is set on fire of hell.
Proverbs 26:22
The words of a talebearer are as dainty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.