Proverbs 26:20-22 Devotionals, Articles & Bible Study

²⁰Without wood, a fire goes out;

without gossip, a conflict ceases.

²¹Like charcoal for embers and wood for fire,

so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.

²²The words of a gossip are like choice morsels

that go down into the inmost being.

— Proverbs 26:20-22

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