34 Bible Verses about gossiping
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They also learn to be idle, going about from house to house; and not only idle, but gossipers and busybodies, speaking things that they should not.
Do not pay attention to everything that is said lest you hear your servant curse you.
The words of a talebearer cause wounds. They plunge down to the innermost parts.
A perverse man sows discord. A whisperer separates good friends.
He who covers a transgression seeks love but he who gossips breaks up friendships.
The one who does not malign with his tongue, do evil to a friend, or bring disgrace on his neighbor or close friend.
They are filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil mindedness; they are whisperers,
I am afraid that I may come and find you different from what I want you to be, and that you may find me different from what you want me to be. I fear that there may be rivalry, jealousy, hot tempers, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorderly conduct.
The evildoer pays attention to false lips. A liar listens attentively to a wicked tongue.
Do not incriminate a servant to his master, or he will curse you could be found guilty.
Women in like manner must be serious, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
Do not curse the king, no not even in thought. Do not curse the rich in your bedchamber for a bird of the air will carry the voice, and that which has wings will tell the matter.
This kind of talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus.
unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, despisers of those who are good,
We say this because we hear that there are people among you who are lazy and who do nothing except meddle in other people's business.
Aged women likewise should be reverent in behavior and teachers of that which is good. They should not be slanderers nor enslaved to too much wine.
When one of them comes to visit me, he speaks falsehood. His heart collects gossip. Then he leaves to tell others.
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and screaming, and abusive speech, be put away (removed) (expiated) from you, along with all malice.
For there must be also heresies among you that they that are approved may be made manifest among you.
Therefore prophesy and say: 'The Lord Jehovah says: For good reason they have made you desolate and crushed you from every side. That way you would become a possession of the rest of the nations and you have become a subject of conversation for the people.
backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
