34 Bible Verses about gossiping
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Besides that, they learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not.
But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness,
Do not take to heart all the things that people say, lest you hear your servant cursing you.
For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases.
Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets, but he who is trustworthy in spirit keeps a thing covered.
Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets; therefore do not associate with a simple babbler.
Argue your case with your neighbor himself, and do not reveal another's secret,
The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.
A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.
Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.
who does not slander with his tongue and does no evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his friend;
They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,
For I fear that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish--that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.
An evildoer listens to wicked lips, and a liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.
Do not slander a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be held guilty.
Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded, faithful in all things.
You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand up against the life of your neighbor: I am the LORD.
So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.
Even in your thoughts, do not curse the king, nor in your bedroom curse the rich, for a bird of the air will carry your voice, or some winged creature tell the matter.
and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,
I am the talk of those who sit in the gate, and the drunkards make songs about me.
"You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.
heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,
For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies.
Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good,
The north wind brings forth rain, and a backbiting tongue, angry looks.
And when one comes to see me, he utters empty words, while his heart gathers iniquity; when he goes out, he tells it abroad.
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.
You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.
for there must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized.
therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Precisely because they made you desolate and crushed you from all sides, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you became the talk and evil gossip of the people,
slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
