34 Bible Verses about gossiping

Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

But shun empty chatter, for they will proceed further in ungodliness,

Also do not take heed to all words that are spoken, lest you hear your servant curse you;

Without wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, contention ceases.

One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.

He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore do not keep company with him who opens wide his lips.

Debate your case with your neighbor, and do not betray the confidence of another;

The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person's innermost parts.

A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

He who doesn't slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;

being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you do not desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;

A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

An evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.

"Do not slander a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be held guilty.

Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

"'You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people; neither shall you stand against the life of your neighbor. I am the LORD.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all deceit, and hypocrisy, and envy, and all slander,

Do not curse the king, no, not in your thoughts; and do not curse the rich in your bedchamber: for a bird of the sky may carry your voice, and that which has wings may tell the matter.

and their word will consume like gangrene, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;

Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.

"You shall not spread a false report. Do not join your hand with the wicked to be an unjust witness.

unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, hateful of good,

For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who do not work at all, but are busybodies.

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

The north wind brings forth rain: so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.

If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.

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

A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire.

For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.

therefore prophesy, and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people";

slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,