Study Desk

If there's no wood, the fire goes out; if nobody gossips, contention stops.

They are filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and vice; stuffed with jealousy, murder, quarrelling, dishonesty and ill-will; they are gossips,

Similarly, the wives must be of good character, not gossips, but temperate, faithful in everything.

Besides that, they learn to be idle, going around from house to house; and not only idle, but gossips and busybodies, saying things they shouldn't.