Gossip

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

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.

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;

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

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

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers, — read the full passage →

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting; — read the full passage →

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men’s matters.

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

But shun empty chatter, for it will go further in ungodliness,

For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don’t work at all, but are busybodies.

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

being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers, — read the full passage →

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?” — read the full passage →

Don’t receive an accusation against an elder, except at the word of two or three witnesses.

having a good conscience; that, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

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. — read the full passage →

that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience: — read the full passage →

But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. — read the full passage →

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged.

For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn’t stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.

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

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

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

backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

But if he doesn’t listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, — read the full passage →