Proverbs 25:23

Bishops' Bible (1568)

The northwinde dryueth away the rayne: euen so doth an angry countenaunce a backbiters tongue.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 101:5 : 5 I will destroy him who priuily slaundereth his neighbour: I wyll not suffer hym who hath a proude loke and a great stomacke.
  • Prov 26:20 : 20 Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: euen so where the talebearer is taken away, there the strife ceasseth.
  • Rom 1:30 : 30 Backbyters, haters of God, dispiteful, proude, boasters, bryngers vp of euyll thinges, disobedient to father & mother:
  • 2 Cor 12:20 : 20 For I feare lest when I come, I shall not fynde you such as I woulde: and that I shalbe founde vnto you, such as ye woulde not: lest there be debates, enuyinges, wrathes, strifes, backbitinges, whisperinges, swellinges, & seditions:
  • Job 37:22 : 22 The faire weather commeth out of the north, the prayse thereof is to God who is terrible.
  • Ps 15:3 : 3 He that backbyteth not with his tongue: nor doth any euil to his felowe, nor rayseth a slaunder vpon his neyghbour.

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    15A brawling woman and the roofe of the house dropping in a raynie day, may well be compared together.

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