Proverbs 25:23

The Message

A north wind brings stormy weather, and a gossipy tongue stormy looks.

Cross References

Psalm 15:3

“Don’t hurt your friend, don’t blame your neighbor; despise the despicable.

Proverbs 26:20

When you run out of wood, the fire goes out; when the gossip ends, the quarrel dies down.

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.