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Proverbs 26:20-22
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20 Fire goes out for lack of fuel, and tensions disappear when gossip stops.

21 A quarrelsome man starts fights as easily as a match sets fire to paper.[a]

22 Gossip is a dainty morsel eaten with great relish.

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  1. Proverbs 26:21 as easily as a match sets fire to paper, literally, “like coals to hot embers and wood to fire.”
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