Proverbs 26:20
Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no tale-bearer, the strife ceaseth.
Proverbs 16:28
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
Proverbs 22:10
Cast out the scorner, and contention shall end; yes, 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 defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire from hell.
Proverbs 26:22
The words of a tale-bearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.