Proverbs 26:20
Where there is no wood, a fire goes out, and where there is no gossip, contention ceases.
Proverbs 16:28
A perverse person spreads dissension, and a gossip separates the closest friends.
Proverbs 22:10
Drive out the scorner and contention will leave; strife and insults will cease.
James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire! The tongue represents the world of wrongdoing among the parts of our bodies. It pollutes the entire body and sets fire to the course of human existence -- and is set on fire by hell.
Proverbs 26:22
The words of a gossip are like delicious morsels; they go down into a person's innermost being.