Proverbs 26:20
Without wood a fire is quenched, and, where there is no tattler, strife is hushed.
Proverbs 16:28
A perverse man, sendeth forth strife, and, a tattler, separateth intimate friends.
Proverbs 22:10
Drive away the scoffer, that strife may depart, and quarrel, and contempt may cease.
James 3:6
And, the tongue, is a fire, - as , the world of unrighteousness, the tongue, becometh fixed among our members, that which defileth the whole body and setteth on fire the wheel of our natural life, and is set on fire, by gehenna!
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Summary
Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
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Bible References
General references
1 Samuel 24:9
Then said David to Saul, Wherefore shouldst thou hearken unto the words of the sons of earth, saying, - Lo! David is seeking thy hurt?
Proverbs 22:10
Drive away the scoffer, that strife may depart, and quarrel, and contempt may cease.