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

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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

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

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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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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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