Proverbs 26:20

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Proverbs 16:28

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

Proverbs 22:10

Drive out a scoffer, and strife goes out; quarreling and abuse will cease.

Proverbs 26:22

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

Leviticus 19:16

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.

James 3:5

So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great exploits. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire!

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is placed among our members as a world of iniquity; it stains the whole body, sets on fire the cycle of life, and is itself set on fire by hell.