34 Bible Verses about gossiping
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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.
Also don't take heed to all words that are spoken, lest you hear your servant curse you;
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 don't keep company with him who opens wide his lips.
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, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; 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 don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;
An evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.
"Don't 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. "'You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.
Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
Don't curse the king, no, not in your thoughts; and don't curse the rich in your bedroom: 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;
"You shall not spread a false report. Don't join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,
For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don't 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;
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.
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 Yahweh: 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;
backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,