'Gossip' in the Bible

You shall not go around as a gossip among your people, and you are not to act against the life of your neighbor [with slander or false testimony]; I am the Lord.

You will be protected from malicious gossip, and will not be afraid of the destruction when it comes.

I have heard the gossip of many;terror is on every side.When they conspired against me,they plotted to take my life.

And when one comes to see me, he speaks empty words,While his heart gathers malicious gossip [against me];When he goes away, he tells it [everywhere].

When I dressed in sackcloth, I became an object of gossip among them.

Those who sit at the city gate gossip about me; drunkards mock me in their songs.

For they have persecuted him whom You have struck,And they tell of the pain of those whom You have pierced and wounded.

Though nobles take their seat and gossip about me, your servant will meditate on your statutes.

A gossip goes around revealing a secret,but a trustworthy person keeps a confidence.

A worthless person concocts evil gossip his lips are like a burning fire.

A contrary man spreads conflict,and a gossip separates close friends.

The words of a gossip are like choice morsels as they descend to the innermost parts of the body.

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.

The words of a gossip are like delicate morsels; they sink down deep within.

She looks well to how things go in her household,And does not eat the bread of idleness.

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.