34 Bible Verses about gossiping
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At the same time they also learn to be idle, as they go around from house to house; and not merely idle, but also gossips and busybodies, talking about things not proper to mention.
But avoid worldly and empty chatter, for it will lead to further ungodliness,
Also, do not take seriously all words which are spoken, so that you will not hear your servant cursing you.
For lack of wood the fire goes out,
And where there is no whisperer, contention quiets down.
He who goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets,
But he who is trustworthy conceals a matter.
He who goes about as a slanderer reveals secrets,
Therefore do not associate with a gossip.
Argue your case with your neighbor,
And do not reveal the secret of another,
The words of a whisperer are like dainty morsels,
And they go down into the innermost parts of the body.
A perverse man spreads strife,
And a slanderer separates intimate friends.
He who conceals a transgression seeks love,
But he who repeats 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;
being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips,
For I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you to be not what I wish and may be found by you to be not what you wish; that perhaps there will be strife, jealousy, angry tempers, disputes, slanders, gossip, arrogance, disturbances;
An evildoer listens to wicked lips;
A liar pays attention to a destructive tongue.
Do not slander a slave to his master,
Or he will curse you and you will be found guilty.
Women must likewise be dignified, not malicious gossips, but temperate, faithful in all things.
You shall not go about as a slanderer among your people, and you are not to act against the life of your neighbor; I am the Lord.
Therefore, putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander,
Furthermore, in your bedchamber do not curse a king, and in your sleeping rooms do not curse a rich man, for a bird of the heavens will carry the sound and the winged creature will make the matter known.
and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,
Those who sit in the gate talk about me,
And I am the song of the drunkards.
“You shall not bear a false report; do not join your hand with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.
unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
For we hear that some among you are leading an undisciplined life, doing no work at all, but acting like busybodies.
Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossips nor enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good,
The north wind brings forth rain,
And a backbiting tongue, an angry countenance.
And when he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood;
His heart gathers wickedness to itself;
When he goes outside, he tells it.
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.
“You sit and speak against your brother;
You slander your own mother’s son.
For there must also be factions among you, so that those who are approved may become evident among you.
therefore prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “For good reason they have made you desolate and crushed you from every side, that you would become a possession of the rest of the nations and you have been taken up in the talk and the whispering of the people.”’”
slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
