'Gossip' in the Bible
I have heard the gossip of many;terror is on every side.When they conspired against me,they plotted to take my life.
A gossip goes around revealing a secret,but a trustworthy person keeps a confidence.
A contrary man spreads conflict,and a gossip separates close friends.
The one who reveals secrets is a constant gossip;avoid someone with a big mouth.
Without wood, fire goes out;without a gossip, conflict dies down.
For I have heard the gossip of many people,“Terror is on every side!Report him; let’s report him!”Everyone I trusted watches for my fall.“Perhaps he will be deceivedso that we might prevail against himand take our vengeance on him.”
therefore, prophesy and say: This is what the Lord God says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you from every side, so that you became a possession for the rest of the nations and an object of people’s gossip and slander,
For I fear that perhaps when I come I will not find you to be what I want, and I may not be found by you to be what you want; there may be quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.