34 Bible Verses about gossiping
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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.
Also do not take heed to all words that are spoken, lest thou hear thy servant curse thee.
For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, contention ceases.
He who goes around as a tale-bearer reveals secrets, but he who is of a faithful spirit conceals a matter.
He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets. Therefore do not associate with him who opens wide his lips.
Debate thy case with thy neighbor [himself], and disclose not the secret of another,
The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts.
A perverse man scatters abroad strife, and a whisperer separates chief friends.
He who covers a transgression seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates chief friends.
he who does no slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor,
having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity;
For I fear lest somehow, having come, I may find you not such as I want, and I may be found by you such as ye do not want, lest somehow there be strifes, envyings, wraths, selfish ambitions, slanderings, whisperings, puffings up, t
A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
An evil-doer gives heed to wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.
Slander not a servant to his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be held guilty.
The wives likewise, be honorable, not slanderous, without wine, faithful in all things.
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.
Therefore, having put off all evil and all deceit and hypocrisies and envies and all evil speaking,
Revile not the king, no, not in thy thought, and revile not the rich in thy bedchamber. For a bird of the heavens shall carry the voice, and that which has wings shall tell the matter.
and their word will have a feeding field like gangrene, of whom are Hymenaeus and Philetus,
Those who sit in the gate talk of me, and [I am] the song of the drunkards.
Thou shall not take up a FALSE report. Do not put thy hand with the wicked man to be an unrighteous witness.
devoid of natural affection, irreconcilable, slanderous, without self-control, savage, no lovers of good,
For we hear of some who walk among you disorderly, not working at all, but being busybodies.
Aged women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderous, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is good,
The north wind brings forth rain. So does a backbiting tongue, an angry countenance.
And if he comes to see [me], he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and reviling be taken away from you, with all evil.
Thou sit and speak against thy brother; thou slander thine own mother's son.
A worthless man devises mischief, and in his lips there is as a scorching fire.
For there must also be factions among you, so that the genuine may become apparent among you.
therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says lord LORD: Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and ye are taken up in the lips o
being gossips, slanderous, God-hating, aggressors, arrogant boasters, contrivers of evil things, disobedient to parents;
