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Proverbs 26:20
Proverbs 26:20 is verse 20 of Proverbs chapter 26, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Without wood, a fire goes out; without gossip, a conflict ceases.
King James Version
Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
World English Bible
For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.
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Proverbs 26:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible
18 Like a madman shooting firebrands and deadly arrows,
19 so is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “I was only joking!”
20 Without wood, a fire goes out; without gossip, a conflict ceases.
21 Like charcoal for embers and wood for fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.
22 The words of a gossip are like choice morsels that go down into the inmost being.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Proverbs 26:22The words of a gossip are like choice morsels that go down into the inmost being.
Proverbs 16:28A perverse man spreads dissension, and a gossip divides close friends.
Proverbs 22:10Drive out the mocker, and conflict will depart; even quarreling and insults will cease.
James 3:6The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.