34 Bible Verses about gossiping

And also they learn to go from house to house idle, yea not idle only, but also trifling and busybodies, speaking things which are not comely.

Unghostly and vain voices, pass over. For they shall increase unto greater ungodliness,

Take not heed unto every word that is spoken, lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:

Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out; and where the backbiter is taken away, there the strife ceaseth.

A dissembling person will discover privy things; but he that is of a faithful heart, will keep counsel.

Meddle not with him that betrayeth secrets, and is a slanderer, and deceiveth with his lips.

Handle thy matter with thy neighbour himself, and discover not another man's secret:

The words of a slanderer are very wounds, and go through unto the inmost parts of the body.

A froward body causeth strife; and he that is a babble of his tongue, maketh division among princes.

Whoso covereth another man's offense, seeketh love; but he that discloseth the fault, setteth friends at variance.

He that hath used no deceit in his tongue, nor done evil to his neighbour, and hath not slandered his neighbours.

being full of all unrighteous doing: of fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, evil-conditioned whisperers,

For I fear, lest it come to pass, that when I come I shall not find you such as I would: and I shall be found unto you such as I would not. I fear lest there be found among you debate, envying, wrath, strife, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, and discord.

A fool's mouth is his own destruction, and his lips are the snare for his own soul.

A wicked body giveth audience to false lips; and a dissembling person giveth ear to a deceitful tongue.

Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he speak evil of thee also, and thou be hurt.

Even so must their wives be honest, not evil speakers: but sober, and faithful in all things.

"'Thou shalt not go up and down a privy accuser among thy people, neither shalt thou help to shed the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.

Wherefore, lay aside all maliciousness, and all guile, and dissimulation, and envy, and all backbiting:

Wish the king no evil in thy thought, and speak no hurt of the rich in thy privy chamber; for a bird of the air shall betray thy voice, and with her feathers shall she betray thy words.

and their words shall fret even as doth a canker: of whose number is Hymenaeus and Philetus,

They that sit in the gate speak against me, and the drunkards make songs upon me.

Thou shalt not accept a vain tale, neither shalt put thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

unkind, trucebreakers, stubborn, false accusers, rioters, fierce, despisers of them which are good,

We have heard say, no doubt, that there are some which walk among you inordinately, and work not at all, but are busybodies.

And the elder women likewise that they be in such raiment as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much drinking, but teachers of honest things,

The north wind driveth away the rain, even so doth an earnest sober countenance a backbiter's tongue.

And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity, and his heart conceiveth falsehood within himself; and when he cometh forth, he telleth it.

Let all bitterness, fierceness and wrath, roaring and cursed speaking, be put away from you, with all maliciousness.

Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother, yea and slanderest thine own mother's son.

An ungodly person stirreth up evil; and in his lips he is as a hot burning fire.

For there must be sects among you, that they which among you are perfect might be known.

prophesy therefore, and speak: thus sayeth the LORD God: Seeing ye be wasted and trod down on every side, and become a possession unto the residue of the Gentiles, which have brought you into men's mouths and unto an evil name among the people:

backbiters, haters of God, doers of wrong, proud, boasters, bringers-up of evil things, disobedient to fathers and mothers,