Proverbs 18:8
A gossip's words are like choice morsels, and they sink into the inmost being.
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Proverbs 12:18
Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Proverbs 16:28
A perverse man spreads dissension, and a gossip divides close friends.

Proverbs 26:20-22
Without wood, a fire goes out; without gossip, a conflict ceases. . . .

Leviticus 19:16
You must not go about spreading slander among your people. You must not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am the LORD.

Psalm 52:2
Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.

Psalm 64:3, 4
who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows, . . .

Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
The words of a whisperer are like dainty morsels, And they go down into the innermost parts of the body.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
A gossip's words are like choice food that goes down to one's innermost being.

International Standard Version
The words of a gossip are like choice morsels as they descend to the innermost parts of the body.

NET Bible
The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down into the person's innermost being.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The words of a lazy man cast him into evil, and they lower him to the inner chamber of Sheol.
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