34 Bible Verses about gossiping

And at the same time they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house, and not only idle, but tattlers also, and busy-bodies, speaking things which they ought not.

But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase to more ungodliness.

Also take no heed to all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:

Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no tale-bearer, the strife ceaseth.

A tale-bearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.

He that goeth about as a tale-bearer revealeth secrets; therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.

Debate thy cause with thy neighbor himself; and reveal not a secret to another:

The words of a tale-bearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.

He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbor, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor.

Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found by you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips: and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.

Accuse not a servant to his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty.

Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

Thou shalt not go up and down as a tale-bearer among thy people; neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbor; I am the LORD.

Wherefore, laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil-speakings,

Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bed-chamber: for a bird of the air will carry the voice, and that which hath wings will tell the matter.

And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymeneus and Philetus;

They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.

Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

Without natural affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

For we hear that there are some who walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busy-bodies.

The aged women likewise, that they be in behavior as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.

And if he cometh to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thy own mother's son.

An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.

For there must be also heresies among you, that they who are approved may be made manifest among you.

Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession to the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:

Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventers of evil things, disobedient to parents,