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Proverbs 26:20

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Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.

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  1. Proverbs 26:18

    As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,

  2. Proverbs 26:19

    So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?

  3. Proverbs 26:21

    As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.

  4. Proverbs 26:22

    The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.