20 For lack of wood the fire goes out,
    and where there is no (A)whisperer, (B)quarreling ceases.

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20 Without wood a fire goes out;
    without a gossip a quarrel dies down.(A)

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And (A)the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, (B)staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life,[a] and set on fire by hell.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. James 3:6 Or wheel of birth
  2. James 3:6 Greek Gehenna

The tongue also is a fire,(A) a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body,(B) sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.(C)

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28 (A)A dishonest man spreads strife,
    and (B)a whisperer (C)separates close friends.

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28 A perverse person stirs up conflict,(A)
    and a gossip separates close friends.(B)

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10 (A)Drive out a scoffer, (B)and strife will go out,
    and (C)quarreling and abuse will cease.

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10 Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife;
    quarrels and insults are ended.(A)

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22 (A)The words of (B)a whisperer are like delicious morsels;
    they go down into the inner parts of the body.

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22 The words of a gossip are like choice morsels;
    they go down to the inmost parts.(A)

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