13 Bible Verses about gossiping

Besides, as they go about from house to house they learn to be idle, and not only idle but gossips and busybodies, and talk of things they ought not to mention.

Leave worldly, empty phrases alone, for they lead people deeper and deeper into godlessness,

They revel in every kind of wrongdoing, wickedness, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and ill-nature.

for I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I want to find you, and that you may find me not as you want to find me. I am afraid that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, bad feeling, rivalry, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder,

Their wives too must be serious, not gossips; they must be temperate, and perfectly trustworthy.

Free yourselves, therefore, from all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of any kind,

and their teaching spreads like a cancer; men like Hymenaeus and Philetus,

unfeeling, irreconcilable, slanderous, with no self-control, brutal, with no love for what is good,

For we hear that some of you are living in idleness, mere busybodies, not doing any work.

Teach the older women, too, to be reverent in their behavior, and not to gossip or be slaves of drink, but to be teachers of what is right,

You must give up all bitterness, rage, anger, and loud, abusive talk, and all spite.

Doubtless there must be parties among you, if those who are right are to be recognized among you.

They are gossips, slanderers, abhorrent to God, insolent, overbearing, boastful, ingenious in evil, undutiful,