13 Bible Verses about gossiping

Besides, as they get the habit of gadding about from house to house, they learn to be idle, and not only idle but gossips and busybodies, talking of things they ought not to mention.

Continue shunning worldly, futile phrases, for they lead on to greater depths of godlessness,

because they overflow with every sort of evil-doing, wickedness, greed, and malice; they are full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, ill-will;

I repeat it, I am apprehensive that, somehow or other, there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, rivalries, slanders, gossiping, haughty pride, and disorders,

The deaconesses too must be serious, not gossips; they must be temperate and perfectly trustworthy.

So once for all get rid of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all sorts of slander,

and their message will spread like a cancer; men like Hymenaeus and Philetus,

lacking in love for kinsmen, irreconcilable, slanderers, having no self-control, savage, lacking in love for the good,

But we are informed that some among you are living as shirkers, mere busybodies, instead of busy at work.

the older women, too, to be reverent in their deportment, and not to be slanderers or slaves to heavy drinking, but to be teachers of what is right,

You must remove all bitterness, rage, anger, loud threats, and insults, with all malice.

Yes, indeed, there must be parties among you, in order that people of approved fitness may come to the front among you.

they are secret backbiters, open slanderers, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful; inventors of new forms of evil, undutiful to parents,