Proverbs 25:23

Webster's Bible (1833)

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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