Proverbs 16:28

A perverse person breeds conflict, and a gossip divides close friends. It matters because slander and whispering destroy the bonds of friendship.

Cross-references · 14

• Prov 17:9He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.
• Jas 3:14–16But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.
• Prov 18:8The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.
• Prov 15:18A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.
• Rom 1:29being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,
• Prov 6:14in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.
• 1 Tim 6:3–5If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,
• Prov 6:19a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.
• Gen 3:1–13Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’”
• 1 Sam 24:9David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to men’s words, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you?’
• Prov 30:33For as the churning of milk produces butter, and the wringing of the nose produces blood; so the forcing of wrath produces strife.”
• Prov 26:20–22For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.
• 2 Cor 12:20For 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;
• Prov 29:22An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.

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