8. To what are the words of a talebearer compared?
“The words of a talebearer are as wounds.” Prov. 26:22.
9. What is their effect?
“He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.” Prov. 17:9.
10. What would follow if there were no talebearers?
“Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.” Prov. 26:20.
11. Among other things, what did Paul fear he would find in the Corinthian church?
“For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults.” 2 Cor. 12:20.
12. What result follows backbiting and like evils?
“For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.” Gal. 5:14, 15.