Proverbs 26:20
Where there is no wood, the fire goes out, so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceases.
Proverbs 16:28
The perverse man sows strife, and the tale bearer separates princes.
Proverbs 22:10
Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; strife and reproach shall cease.
James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defiles the whole body and sets on fire the course of our nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Proverbs 26:22
The words of a talebearer seem smooth, but they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.