34 Bible Verses about gossiping
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Now at the same time, they also learn to be idle as they go from house to house; and not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies [meddlers in things that do not concern them], talking about things they should not mention.
But avoid all irreverent babble and godless chatter [with its profane, empty words], for it will lead to further ungodliness,
Also, do not take seriously everything that is said, so that you will not hear your servant cursing you,
For lack of wood the fire goes out,
And where there is no whisperer [who gossips], contention quiets down.
He who goes about as a gossip reveals secrets,
But he who is trustworthy and faithful keeps a matter hidden.
He who goes about as a gossip reveals secrets;
Therefore do not associate with a gossip [who talks freely or flatters].
Argue your case with your neighbor himself [before you go to court];
And do not reveal another’s secret,
The words of a whisperer (gossip) are like dainty morsels [to be greedily eaten];
They go down into the innermost chambers of the body [to be remembered and mused upon].
A perverse man spreads strife,
And one who gossips separates intimate friends.
He who covers and forgives an offense seeks love,
But he who repeats or gossips about a matter separates intimate friends.
He does not slander with his tongue,
Nor does evil to his neighbor,
Nor takes up a reproach against his friend;
until they were filled (permeated, saturated) with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice and mean-spiritedness. They are gossips [spreading rumors],
For I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you not to be as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish—that perhaps there may be strife, jealousy, angry tempers, disputes, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder;
An evildoer listens closely to wicked lips;
And a liar pays attention to a destructive and malicious tongue.
Do not slander or malign a servant before his master [stay out of another’s personal life],
Or he will curse you [for your interference], and you will be found guilty.
Women must likewise be worthy of respect, not malicious gossips, but self-controlled, [thoroughly] trustworthy in all things.
You shall not go around as a gossip among your people, and you are not to act against the life of your neighbor [with slander or false testimony]; I am the Lord.
So put aside every trace of malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander and hateful speech;
Moreover, do not curse the king, even in your bedroom, and in your sleeping rooms do not curse the rich, for a bird of the air will carry the sound and a winged creature will make the matter known.
and their teaching will spread like gangrene. So it is with Hymenaeus and Philetus,
They who sit in the [city’s] gate talk about me and mock me,
And I am the song of the drunkards.
“You shall not give a false report; you shall not join hands with the wicked to be a malicious witness [promoting wrong and violence].
[and they will be] unloving [devoid of natural human affection, calloused and inhumane], irreconcilable, malicious gossips, devoid of self-control [intemperate, immoral], brutal, haters of good,
Indeed, we hear that some among you are leading an undisciplined and inappropriate life, doing no work at all, but acting like busybodies [meddling in other people’s business].
Older women similarly are to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossips nor addicted to much wine, teaching what is right and good,
And when one comes to see me, he speaks empty words,
While his heart gathers malicious gossip [against me];
When he goes away, he tells it [everywhere].
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor [perpetual animosity, resentment, strife, fault-finding] and slander be put away from you, along with every kind of malice [all spitefulness, verbal abuse, malevolence].
A worthless man devises and digs up evil,
And the words on his lips are like a scorching fire.
for [doubtless] there have to be factions among you, so that those who are of approved character may be clearly recognized among you.
therefore prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “For good reason they have made you a desolation, and they crushed you from every side so that you would become a possession of the rest of the nations and you have become the talk and the whispering of the people.”’”
slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors [of new forms] of evil, disobedient and disrespectful to parents,