Passage · Old Testament

Proverbs 26:20-22

Prov.26.20-Prov.26.22

20Without wood a fire goes out; without a gossip a quarrel dies down. 21As charcoal to embers and as wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome person for kindling strife. 22The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to the inmost parts.

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