Proverbs 26:20
"Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth."
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- Proverbs 16:28
"A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 22:10
"Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease."
Read in chapter → - 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 of hell."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 26:22
"The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly."
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