34 Bible Verses about gossiping

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1 Timothy 5:13

And reject also the idle, who have learned to wander about from house to house, and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

Ecclesiastes 7:21

Also do not take to heart all the words that are spoken lest thou hear thy slave speak evil of thee:

Proverbs 26:20

Where there is no wood, the fire goes out, so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceases.

Proverbs 20:19

He that goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets; therefore meddle not with him that flatters with his lips.

Proverbs 18:8

The words of a talebearer seem smooth, but they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

Psalm 15:3

He that does not backbite with his tongue nor do evil to his neighbour nor take up a reproach against his neighbour.

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I desire and that I shall be found unto you such as ye desire not, lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, rumours, tumults,

Proverbs 18:7

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

Proverbs 17:4

An evil doer gives heed to false lips, and a liar gives ear to the tongue which curses.

Proverbs 30:10

Do not accuse a slave in the presence of his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty.

Leviticus 19:16

Thou shalt not travel about as a talebearer among thy people; neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour. I am the LORD.

Ecclesiastes 10:20

Do not curse the king, not even in thy thought; and do not curse the rich even in the secret place of thy bedchamber; for the birds of the air shall carry the voice, and those who have wings shall tell the matter.

2 Timothy 2:17

And that word will eat away as gangrene, of whom are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

Psalm 69:12

They that sat in the gate spoke against me, and I was the song of the drunkards.

Titus 2:3

The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becomes holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of honesty;

Psalm 41:6

And if he came to see me, he spoke lies: his heart gathered iniquity to itself, and when he goes out, he tells it.

Psalm 50:20

Thou didst sit and speak against thy brother; thou didst slander thine own mother's son.

Proverbs 16:27

The man of Belial digs in search of evil, and in his lips there is as a burning fire.

1 Corinthians 11:19

For it is expedient that there also be heresies among you, so that those who are proved may become manifest among you.

Ezekiel 36:3

therefore prophesy and say, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Because they have made you desolate and swallowed you up on every side that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the Gentiles, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers and are an infamy of the people;

Romans 1:30

backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

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