34 Bible Verses about gossiping

And with it all they also learn to be idle, going around the houses; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things they ought not.

But shun profane, vain babblings, for they will increase to more ungodliness.

Also do not listen to all words that are spoken; lest you hear your servant curse you.

Where there is no wood, the fire goes out; and where there is no talebearer, the fighting ceases.

One going with slander is a revealer of secrets, but the faithful of spirit keeps the matter hidden.

A gossip is a revealer of secrets; so do not mix with him who flatters with his lips.

Debate your cause with your neighbor; and do not uncover a secret to another,

The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

A perverse man causes fighting, and a whisperer separates chief friends.

He who covers a transgression seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates friends.

he does not backbite with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor;

being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; being full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, evil habits, becoming whisperers,

For I fear, lest somehow coming I might not find you as I wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you might not wish; lest somehow there be strifes, envyings, angers, contentions, backbitings, whisperings, proud thoughts, tumults;

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

A wicked doer gives heed to false lips; a liar gives ear to an evil tongue.

Do not accuse a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be found guilty.

Even so their wives are to be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

You shall not go as a slanderer among your people; you shall not stand against the blood of your neighbor. I am Jehovah.

Therefore laying aside all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings, and all evil speakings,

Do not curse a king, no, not in your thought; and do not curse the rich in your bedroom; for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which has wings shall tell the matter.

And their word will eat like a gangrene; among whom are Hymeneus and Philetus,

They who sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.

You shall not raise a false report. Do not put your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

without natural affection, unyielding, false accusers, without self-control, savage, despisers of good,

For we hear that there are some who walk disorderly among you, not working at all, but being busybodies.

Let the aged women likewise be in reverent behavior, not slanderers, not enslaved by much wine, teachers of good;

The north wind drives away rain; so does an angry face a backbiting tongue.

And when he comes to see me, he speaks vanity; his heart gathers iniquity to itself; he goes out and speaks of it.

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and tumult and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.

You sit; you speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.

An ungodly man plots evil, and his lips are like a burning fire.

For there must also be heresies among you, that the approved ones may be revealed among you.

Therefore prophesy and say, So says the Lord Jehovah: Because of the wasting and crushing of you from all around, that you might be a possession to the rest of the nations, and you were lifted up on the tip of the tongue, and the talking of the people;

backbiters, haters of God, insolent, proud, braggarts, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,