Verse 28

A perverse person spreads conflict, and a gossip separates close friends.

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  • Prov 17:9 : 9 Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but whoever repeats a matter separates close friends.
  • Prov 15:18 : 18 A hot-tempered person stirs up conflict, but one who is patient calms a quarrel.
  • Prov 18:8 : 8 The words of a slanderer are like tasty morsels; they go down into the innermost parts of the body.
  • Prov 26:20-22 : 20 Without wood, the fire goes out, and without a whisperer, strife ceases. 21 Charcoal for embers and wood for fire, and a contentious person for kindling strife. 22 The words of a gossip are like tasty morsels; they go down into the innermost being.
  • Prov 29:22 : 22 An angry man stirs up strife, and a hot-tempered man commits many transgressions.
  • Prov 30:33 : 33 For as churning cream produces butter, and as twisting the nose produces blood, so stirring up anger produces strife.
  • Rom 1:29 : 29 They have become filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, and malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,
  • 2 Cor 12:20 : 20 For I fear that when I come, I may not find you as I wish, and you may not find me as you wish. I fear that there may be strife, jealousy, anger, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.
  • 1 Tim 6:3-5 : 3 If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, 4 he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. Instead, he has an unhealthy interest in controversies and arguments about words, which result in envy, strife, slander, and evil suspicions. 5 These lead to constant friction among people who are corrupted in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means to profit. Stay away from such people.
  • Jas 3:14-16 : 14 But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast and deny the truth. 15 This is not the wisdom that comes down from above but is earthly, unspiritual, and demonic. 16 For where there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there is disorder and every evil practice.
  • Gen 3:1-9 : 1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, 'Did God really say, you shall not eat from any tree in the garden?' 2 The woman said to the serpent, 'We may eat the fruit of the trees in the garden.' 3 'But of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God said, 'You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.'' 4 But the serpent said to the woman, 'You will surely not die.' 5 'For God knows that on the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.' 6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized that they were naked. So they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. 8 They heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden during the breeze of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the LORD God called out to the man and said to him, 'Where are you?' 10 He said, 'I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid myself.' 11 He said, 'Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?' 12 The man said, 'The woman you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate.' 13 Then the LORD God said to the woman, 'What is this you have done?' The woman said, 'The serpent deceived me, and I ate.'
  • 1 Sam 24:9 : 9 David got up afterward, went out of the cave, and called after Saul, 'My lord the king!' When Saul looked behind him, David bowed down with his face to the ground and paid homage.
  • Prov 6:14 : 14 He plots evil with deceit in his heart; he constantly stirs up dissension.
  • Prov 6:19 : 19 a false witness who pours out lies, and one who stirs up conflict among brothers.