26 Bible Verses about Gossip

He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets. Therefore do not associate with him who opens wide his lips.

Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking deceit.

He who goes around as a tale-bearer reveals secrets, but he who is of a faithful spirit conceals a matter.

Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

Let no corrupt speech go out of your mouth, rather if there is any good word for edification of a need, so that it may give grace to those who hear.

A perverse man scatters abroad strife, and a whisperer separates chief friends.

to slander no man, to be noncontentious, meek, showing all mildness to all men.

Thou shall not take up a FALSE report. Do not put thy hand with the wicked man to be an unrighteous witness.

Speak not against each other, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against law and judges law. But if thou judge law, thou are not a doer of law, but a judge.

For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, contention ceases.

If any man among you seems to be religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is futile.

He who slanders his neighbor secretly, him I will destroy. He who has a high look and a proud heart I will not endure.

And also at the same time they learn to be idle, roving the houses, and not only idle, but also babbling and meddlesome, speaking things that they ought not.

Thou shall not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people, neither shall thou stand against the blood of thy neighbor. I am LORD.

Thou sit and speak against thy brother; thou slander thine own mother's son.

My enemies speak evil against me, [saying], When will he die, and his name perish?

Thou shall not bear FALSE witness against thy neighbor.

And there was much murmuring among the multitudes about him. Some said, He is a good man, others said, No, but he leads the multitude astray. Yet no man spoke openly about him because of fear of the Jews.

Transgression is not lacking in the multitude of words, but he who refrains his lips does wisely.

A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for stripes. A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

He who keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

He who covers a transgression seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates chief friends.

Debate thy case with thy neighbor [himself], and disclose not the secret of another, lest he who hears it revile thee, and thine infamy turn not away.

There are six things which LORD hates, yea, seven which are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked purposes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,read more.
a FALSE witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

He who hides hatred is of lying lips. And he who utters a slander is a fool.

having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; being gossips, slanderous, God-hating, aggressors, arrogant boasters, contrivers of evil things, disobedient to parents;