Proverbs 26:20
Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out; and where the backbiter is taken away, there the strife ceaseth.
Proverbs 16:28
A froward body causeth strife; and he that is a babble of his tongue, maketh division among princes.
Proverbs 22:10
Cast out the scornful man, and so shall strife go out with him; yea, variance and slander shall cease.
James 3:6
and the tongue is fire, and a world of wickedness. So is the tongue set among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth afire all that we have of nature, and is itself set afire, even of hell.
Proverbs 26:22
A slanderer's words are like flattery, but they pierce the inward parts of the body.