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Proverbs 17:9
Whoever would foster love covers over an offense, but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends.
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Proverbs 15:18
A hot- tempered person stirs up conflict, but the one who is patient calms a quarrel.
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James 3:14-16
But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth.Such“ wisdom” does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.
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Proverbs 18:8
The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to the inmost parts.
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Romans 1:29
They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,
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1 Timothy 6 3-1 Timothy 6 5
If anyone teaches otherwise and does not agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching,they are conceited and understand nothing. They have an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicionsand constant friction between people of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain.
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Proverbs 30:33
For as churning cream produces butter, and as twisting the nose produces blood, so stirring up anger produces strife.”
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Proverbs 6:14
who plots evil with deceit in his heart— he always stirs up conflict.
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Proverbs 6:19
a false witness who pours out lies and a person who stirs up conflict in the community.
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Genesis 3:1-13
Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman,“ Did God really say,‘ You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”The woman said to the serpent,“ We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,but God did say,‘ You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”“ You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman.“ For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some 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 realized 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 as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.But the Lord God called to the man,“ Where are you?”He answered,“ I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”And he said,“ Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”The man said,“ The woman you put here with me— she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”Then the Lord God said to the woman,“ What is this you have done?” The woman said,“ The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
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1 Samuel 24 9
He said to Saul,“ Why do you listen when men say,‘ David is bent on harming you’?
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2 Corinthians 12 20
For I am afraid that when I come I may not find you as I want you to be, and you may not find me as you want me to be. I fear that there may be discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder.
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Proverbs 29:22
An angry person stirs up conflict, and a hot-tempered person commits many sins.
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Proverbs 26:20-22
Without wood a fire goes out; without a gossip a quarrel dies down.As charcoal to embers and as wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome person for kindling strife.The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to the inmost parts.