Verse 28

A perverse person spreads dissension, and a gossip separates the closest friends.

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 17:9 : 9 The one who forgives an offense seeks love, but whoever repeats a matter separates close friends.
  • Prov 15:18 : 18 A quick-tempered person stirs up dissension, but one who is slow to anger calms a quarrel.
  • Prov 18:8 : 8 The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; and they have gone down into the person’s innermost being.
  • Prov 26:20-22 : 20 Where there is no wood, a fire goes out, and where there is no gossip, contention ceases. 21 Like charcoal is to burning coals, and wood to fire, so is a contentious person to kindle strife. 22 The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; and they have gone down into a person’s innermost being.
  • Prov 29:22 : 22 An angry person stirs up dissension, and a wrathful person is abounding in transgression.
  • Prov 30:33 : 33 For as the churning of milk produces butter and as punching the nose produces blood, so stirring up anger produces strife.
  • Rom 1:29 : 29 They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips,
  • 2 Cor 12:20 : 20 For I am afraid that somehow when I come I will not find you what I wish, and you will find me not what you wish. I am afraid that somehow there may be quarreling, jealousy, intense anger, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.
  • 1 Tim 6:3-5 : 3 If someone spreads false teachings and does not agree with sound words(that is, those of our Lord Jesus Christ) and with the teaching that accords with godliness, 4 he is conceited and understands nothing, but has an unhealthy interest in controversies and verbal disputes. This gives rise to envy, dissension, slanders, evil suspicions, 5 and constant bickering by people corrupted in their minds and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a way of making a profit.
  • Jas 3:14-16 : 14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfishness in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth. 15 Such wisdom does not come from above but is earthly, natural, demonic. 16 For where there is jealousy and selfishness, there is disorder and every evil practice.
  • Gen 3:1-9 : 1 The Temptation and the Fall Now the serpent was more shrewd than any of the wild animals that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman,“Is it really true that God said,‘You must not eat from any tree of the orchard’?” 2 The woman said to the serpent,“We may eat of the fruit from the trees of the orchard; 3 but concerning the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the orchard God said,‘You must not eat from it, and you must not touch it, or else you will die.’” 4 The serpent said to the woman,“Surely you will not die, 5 for God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will open and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 6 When the woman saw that the tree produced fruit that was good for food, was attractive to the eye, and was desirable for making one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some of it to her husband who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. 8 The Judgment Oracles of God at the Fall Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God moving about in the orchard at the breezy time of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the orchard. 9 But the LORD God called to the man and said to him,“Where are you?” 10 The man replied,“I heard you moving about in the orchard, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.” 11 And the LORD God said,“Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?” 12 The man said,“The woman whom you gave me, she gave me some fruit from the tree and I ate it.” 13 So the LORD God said to the woman,“What is this you have done?” And the woman replied,“The serpent tricked me, and I ate.”
  • 1 Sam 24:9 : 9 David said to Saul,“Why do you pay attention when men say,‘David is seeking to do you harm’?
  • Prov 6:14 : 14 he plots evil with perverse thoughts in his heart, he spreads contention at all times.
  • Prov 6:19 : 19 a false witness who pours out lies, and a person who spreads discord among family members.