Proverbs 26:20

A Conservative Version

For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, contention ceases.

Cross References

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Thus, the tongue is made to lead among our body-parts, defiling the whole body, and setting the cycle of nature on fire, and being set on fire by hell.

Proverbs 22:10

Cast out the scoffer, and contention will go out, yea, strife and reproach will cease.

Proverbs 16:28

A perverse man scatters abroad strife, and a whisperer separates chief friends.

Proverbs 26:22

The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts.

James 3:5

So also the tongue is a little body-part, and boasts greatly. Behold a little fire, how much wood it kindles.

Leviticus 19:16

Thou shall not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people, neither shall thou stand against the blood of thy neighbor. I am LORD.