Proverbs 25:23
The north wind brings forth rain: so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.
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Referenced Verses
- Ps 101:5 : 5 I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won't tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.
- Prov 26:20 : 20 For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.
- Rom 1:30 : 30 backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
- 2 Cor 12:20 : 20 For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;
- Job 37:22 : 22 Out of the north comes golden splendor. With God is awesome majesty.
- Ps 15:3 : 3 He who doesn't slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;
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