Proverbs 16:28

The Message

Troublemakers start fights; gossips break up friendships.

Cross References

Proverbs 15:18

Hot tempers start fights; a calm, cool spirit keeps the peace.

Proverbs 16:27

Mean people spread mean gossip; their words smart and burn.

Proverbs 16:29

Calloused climbers betray their very own friends; they’d stab their own grandmothers in the back.

Proverbs 17:17

Friends love through all kinds of weather, and families stick together in all kinds of trouble.

Proverbs 17:9

Overlook an offense and bond a friendship; fasten on to a slight and—good-bye, friend!

Proverbs 18:6

The words of a fool start fights; do him a favor and gag him.

Proverbs 18:8

Listening to gossip is like eating cheap candy; do you really want junk like that in your belly?

Proverbs 29:22

Angry people stir up a lot of discord; the intemperate stir up trouble.

2 Corinthians 12:20

I do admit that I have fears that when I come you’ll disappoint me and I’ll disappoint you, and in frustration with each other everything will fall to pieces—quarrels, jealousy, flaring tempers, taking sides, angry words, vicious rumors, swelled heads, and general bedlam. I don’t look forward to a second humiliation by God among you, compounded by hot tears over that crowd that keeps sinning over and over in the same old ways, who refuse to turn away from the pigsty of evil, sexual disorder, and indecency in which they wallow.