Proverbs 26:20

Tree of Life Version

Without wood a fire goes out; without gossip quarrels cease.

Cross References

Proverbs 16:28

A perverse person sows strife, and a gossip separates close friends.

Proverbs 22:10

Throw out a scoffer and strife will go out, quarreling and disgrace will cease.

Proverbs 26:22

A gossip’s words are like tasty morsels— they slide down into the innermost parts of the body.

Leviticus 19:16

“You are not to go up and down as a talebearer among your people. You are not to endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Adonai.

James 3:5

So also the tongue is a small member—yet it boasts of great things. See how so small a fire sets a blaze so great a forest!

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is a world of evil placed among our body parts. It pollutes the whole body and sets on fire the course of life—and is set on fire by Gehenna.