Gossip

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

And withal they learn also to be idle, going about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

For I fear, lest by any means, when I come, I should find you not such as I would, and should myself be found of you such as ye would not; lest by any means there should be strife, jealousy, wraths, factions, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;

If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man’s religion is vain.

Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

to speak evil of no man, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all meekness toward all men.

And I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire!

being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers, — read the full passage →

And even as they refused to have God intheirknowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting; — read the full passage →

but now do ye also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, railing, shameful speaking out of your mouth:

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

Blessed are ye when men shall reproach you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

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

All things therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do ye also unto them: for this is the law and the prophets.

But shun profane babblings: for they will proceed further in ungodliness,

For we hear of some that walk among you disorderly, that work not at all, but are busybodies.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice:

being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers, — read the full passage →

and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, even as we charged you;

Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

And if he refuse to hear them, tell it unto the church: and if he refuse to hear the church also, let him be unto thee as the Gentile and the publican.

Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, — read the full passage →

In that hour came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who then is greatest in the kingdom of heaven? — read the full passage →

Against an elder receive not an accusation, except at the mouth of two or three witnesses.

having a good conscience; that, wherein ye are spoken against, they may be put to shame who revile your good manner of life in Christ.

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them;

And withal they learn also to be idle, going about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. — read the full passage →

that aged men be temperate, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience: — read the full passage →

but the tongue can no man tame; it is a restless evil, it is full of deadly poison.

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

Wherefore, putting away falsehood, speak ye truth each one with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

For in many things we all stumble. If any stumbleth not in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.

And seeing the multitudes, he went up into the mountain: and when he had sat down, his disciples came unto him: — read the full passage →

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;

And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell.

Women in like manner must be grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, 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 hear thee not, take with thee one or two more, that at the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may be established.

To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

Put them in mind to be in subjection to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready unto every good work, — read the full passage →