Proverbs 25:23

Geneva Bible (1560)

As the Northwinde driueth away the raine, so doeth an angry countenance the slandering tongue.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 101:5 : 5 Him that priuily slandereth his neighbour, wil I destroy: him that hath a proude looke and hie heart, I cannot suffer.
  • Prov 26:20 : 20 Without wood the fire is quenched, and without a talebearer strife ceaseth.
  • Rom 1:30 : 30 Backbiters, haters of God, doers of wrong, proude, boasters, inuenters of euil things, disobedient to parents,
  • 2 Cor 12:20 : 20 For I feare least when I come, I shall not finde you such as I would: and that I shalbe found vnto you such as ye woulde not, and least there be strife, enuying, wrath, contentions, backebitings, whisperings, swellings and discord.
  • Job 37:22 : 22 The brightnesse commeth out of the North: the praise thereof is to God, which is terrible.
  • Ps 15:3 : 3 He that slandereth not with his tongue, nor doeth euill to his neighbour, nor receiueth a false report against his neighbour.

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