Cross reference
Proverbs 26:20
20 For lack of wood a fire goes out; Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.
Proverbs 16:28
28 A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.
Proverbs 22:10
10 Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; Yes, quarrels and insults will stop.
James 3:6
6 And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.{Gehenna is a name that describes a burning Hell with rotting bodies and unclean things in it}
Proverbs 26:22
22 The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, They go down into the innermost parts.