13 Bible Verses about gossiping

And not only that, but they learn to be idle as they go about from house to house. Nor are they merely idle, but they also become gossips and busy-bodies, and talk of what they ought not.

Avoid profane prattle. Those who indulge in it only get deeper into irreligious ways,

They reveled in every form of wickedness, evil, greed, vice. Their lives were full of envy, murder, quarreling, treachery, malice.

For I am afraid that perhaps, when I come, I may find that you are not what I want you to be, and, on the other hand, that you may find that I am what you do not want me to be. I am afraid that I may find quarreling, jealousy, ill-feeling, rivalry, slandering, back-biting, self-assertion, and disorder.

It should be the same with the women. They should be serious, not gossips, sober, and trustworthy in all respects.

Now that you have done with all malice, all deceitfulness, insincerity, jealous feelings, and all back-biting,

and their teaching will spread like a cancer. Hymenaeus and Philetus are instances of this.

incapable of affection, merciless, slanderous, wanting in self-control, brutal, careless of the right,

We hear that there are among you people who are living ill- ordered lives, and who, instead of attending to their own business, are mere busy-bodies.

So, too, that the older women should be reverent in their demeanor, and that they should avoid scandal, and beware of becoming slaves to drink;

Let all bitterness, passion, anger, brawling, and abusive language be banished from among you, as well as all malice.

Indeed, there must be actual parties among you, for so only will the men of real worth become known.

They became back-biters, slanderers, impious, insolent, boastful. They devised new sins. They disobeyed their parents.