Proverbs 18:8
The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.
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Proverbs 18:8
The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.
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Proverbs 26:21
As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife.
Proverbs 26:22
The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, they go down into the innermost parts.
Proverbs 16:28
A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.
Proverbs 6:14
in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.
Proverbs 6:19
a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.
Proverbs 15:18
A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.
Proverbs 29:22
An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.
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Proverbs 26:20
For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.
Leviticus 19:16
“ ‘You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people. “ ‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.
Proverbs 20:19
He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.
Proverbs 11:13
One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.
Proverbs 17:9
He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.
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Proverbs 18:5
To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice.
Proverbs 18:6
A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings.
Proverbs 18:7
A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare to his soul.
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Proverbs 12:18
There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.
Psalms 52:2
Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Psalms 55:21
His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.
Proverbs 12:6
The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.
James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.
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Proverbs 18:17
He who pleads his cause first seems right— until another comes and questions him.
Proverbs 18:18
The lot settles disputes, and keeps strong ones apart.
Proverbs 18:19
A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city. Disputes are like the bars of a fortress.
Proverbs 18:20
A man’s stomach is filled with the fruit of his mouth. With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied.
Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.
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Proverbs 20:27
The spirit of man is Yahweh’s lamp, searching all his innermost parts.
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Proverbs 7:27
Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.
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Proverbs 19:15
Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.
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Proverbs 20:30
Wounding blows cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the innermost parts.
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