34 Bible Verses about gossiping
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At the same time, they also learn to be idle, going from house to house; they are not only idle, but are also gossips and busybodies, saying things they shouldn’t say.
But avoid irreverent, empty speech, for this will produce an even greater measure of godlessness.
Don’t pay attention to everything people say, or you may hear your servant cursing you,
A gossip’s words are like choice food
that goes down to one’s innermost being.
A contrary man spreads conflict,
and a gossip separates close friends.
Whoever conceals an offense promotes love,
but whoever gossips about it separates friends.
who does not slander with his tongue,
who does not harm his friend
or discredit his neighbor,
They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,
For I fear that perhaps when I come I will not find you to be what I want, and I may not be found by you to be what you want; there may be quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.
A wicked person listens to malicious talk;
a liar pays attention to a destructive tongue.
Don’t slander a servant to his master
or he will curse you, and you will become guilty.
Wives, too, must be worthy of respect, not slanderers, self-controlled, faithful in everything.
You must not go about spreading slander among your people; you must not jeopardize your neighbor’s life; I am Yahweh.
Do not curse the king even in your thoughts,
and do not curse a rich person even in your bedroom,
for a bird of the sky may carry the message,
and a winged creature may report the matter.
And their word will spread like gangrene; Hymenaeus and Philetus are among them.
unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good,
For we hear that there are some among you who walk irresponsibly, not working at all, but interfering with the work of others.
In the same way, older women are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not addicted to much wine. They are to teach what is good,
When one of them comes to visit, he speaks deceitfully;
he stores up evil in his heart;
he goes out and talks.
All bitterness, anger and wrath, shouting and slander must be removed from you, along with all malice.
There must, indeed, be factions among you, so that those who are approved may be recognized among you.
therefore, prophesy and say: This is what the Lord God says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you from every side, so that you became a possession for the rest of the nations and an object of people’s gossip and slander,
slanderers, God-haters, arrogant, proud, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
