26 Bible Verses about Gossip

A gossip is a revealer of secrets; so do not mix with him who flatters with his lips.

Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking guile.

One going with slander is a revealer of secrets, but the faithful of spirit keeps the matter hidden.

Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

Let not any filthy word go out of your mouth, but if any is good to building up in respect of need, that it may give grace to the ones hearing.

A perverse man causes fighting, and a whisperer separates chief friends.

to speak evil of no one, not being quarrelsome, but forbearing, showing all meekness to all men.

You shall not raise a false report. Do not put your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

Do not speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against his brother, and who judges his brother, speaks against the Law and judges the Law. But if you judge the Law, you are not a doer of the Law, but a judge.

Where there is no wood, the fire goes out; and where there is no talebearer, the fighting ceases.

If anyone thinks to be religious among you, yet does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this one's religion is vain.

Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, I will cut him off; him who has a high look and a proud heart, I will not allow.

And with it all they also learn to be idle, going around the houses; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things they ought not.

You shall not go as a slanderer among your people; you shall not stand against the blood of your neighbor. I am Jehovah.

You sit; you speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.

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

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

And there was much murmuring among the crowd concerning Him, for some said, He is a good man; others said, No, but he deceives the crowd. However, no one spoke openly of Him, because of the fear of the Jews.

In the multitude of words, sin is not lacking; but he who holds back his lips is wise.

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

Whoever 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 friends.

Debate your cause with your neighbor; and do not uncover a secret to another, lest he who hears it put you to shame, and your evil report turn not away.

These six Jehovah hates; yea, seven are hateful to his soul: a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that plots wicked plans, feet hurrying to run to evil,read more.
a false witness who speaks lies, and he who causes fighting among brothers.

He who hides hatred with lying lips, and he who speaks a slander, is a fool.

being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; being full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, evil habits, becoming whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, insolent, proud, braggarts, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,