Proverbs 25:23

KJV1611 – Modern English

The north wind brings forth rain, and a backbiting tongue, an angry countenance.

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  • Ps 101:5 : 5 Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him will I cut off: him that has a haughty look and a proud heart I will not endure.
  • Prov 26:20 : 20 Where there is no wood, the fire goes out; so where there is no gossip, strife ceases.
  • Rom 1:30 : 30 Backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, 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 as I wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you wish not; lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;
  • Job 37:22 : 22 Fair weather comes out of the north; with God is awesome majesty.
  • Ps 15:3 : 3 He who does not slander with his tongue, nor do evil to his neighbor, nor take up a reproach against his neighbor.

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