Proverbs 25:23
The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
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Referenced Verses
- Ps 101:5 : 5 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
- Prov 26:20 : 20 Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
- Rom 1:30 : 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, pud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
- 2 Cor 12:20 : 20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
- Job 37:22 : 22 Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty.
- Ps 15:3 : 3 He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
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