Perversity
One who has a history of dissension is usually perverse to the core.
Proverbs 16
28 A perverse man stirs up dissension, and a gossip separates close friends.
Perversity is habitual. We can tell a lot when we observe the record of other people. Do they have a history of encouragement or a record of destruction? Do they habitually support and affirm or are they customarily gossips? Are they generally constructive or destructive in the communities to which they belong? It is one thing to be caught in an act of carrying tales and being critical and it is another to have a habit of it. One who has a history of dissension is usually perverse to the core.
More than once good people are taken in by those who gossip or stir up dissension. Such good people often give the benefit of the doubt to the destroyer. However, do not be fooled, the scripture warns, a habitual “gossip separates close friends.” Confront such a one and withdraw at once until they show sorrow over their tendencies of destructiveness. If you do not they will take you down with them and separate you from good friends.
Proverbs 16
30 He who winks with his eye is plotting perversity; he who purses his lips is bent on evil.
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