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Proverbs 17:9
Whoever conceals an offense promotes love, but whoever gossips about it separates friends.
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Proverbs 15:18
A hot-tempered person stirs up conflict, but one slow to anger calms strife.
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James 3:14-16
But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and deny the truth.Such wisdom does not come down from above but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there is disorder and every evil practice.
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Proverbs 18:8
A gossip’s words are like choice food that goes down to one’s innermost being.
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Romans 1:29
They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,
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1 Timothy 6 3-1 Timothy 6 5
If anyone teaches false doctrine and does not agree with the sound teaching of our Lord Jesus Christ and with the teaching that promotes godliness,he is conceited and understands nothing, but has an unhealthy interest in disputes and arguments over words. From these come envy, quarreling, slander, evil suspicions,and constant disagreement among people whose minds are depraved and deprived of the truth, who imagine that godliness is a way to material gain.
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Proverbs 30:33
For the churning of milk produces butter, and twisting a nose draws blood, and stirring up anger produces strife.
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Proverbs 6:14
He always plots evil with perversity in his heart; he stirs up trouble.
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Proverbs 6:19
a lying witness who gives false testimony, and one who stirs up trouble among brothers.
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Genesis 3:1-13
Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman,“ Did God really say,‘ You can’t eat from any tree in the garden’?”The woman said to the serpent,“ We may eat the fruit from the trees in the garden.But about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God said,‘ You must not eat it or touch it, or you will die.’”“ No! You will certainly not die,” the serpent said to the woman.“ In fact, God knows that when you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”The woman saw that the tree was good for food and delightful to look at, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden.So the LORD God called out to the man and said to him,“ Where are you?”And he said,“ I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”Then he asked,“ Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”The man replied,“ The woman you gave to be with me— she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate.”So the LORD God asked the woman,“ What have you done?” And the woman said,“ The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
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1 Samuel 24 9
David said to Saul,“ Why do you listen to the words of people who say,‘ Look, David intends to harm you’?
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2 Corinthians 12 20
For I fear that perhaps when I come I will not find you to be what I want, and you may not find me to be what you want. Perhaps there will be quarreling, jealousy, angry outbursts, selfish ambitions, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.
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Proverbs 29:22
An angry person stirs up conflict, and a hot-tempered one increases rebellion.
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Proverbs 26:20-22
Without wood, fire goes out; without a gossip, conflict dies down.As charcoal for embers and wood for fire, so is a quarrelsome person for kindling strife.A gossip’s words are like choice food that goes down to one’s innermost being.