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Proverbs 18:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.

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you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery.

Rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

A perverse person spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.

The mouths of fools are their ruin, and their lips a snare to themselves.

One who is slack in work is close kin to a vandal.

You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand idly by when the blood of your neighbor is at stake: I am the Lord.