Gossip

A froward man sendeth forth contention, A tale-bearer is separating a familiar friend.

A revealer of secret counsels is the busybody, And for a deceiver <FI>with<Fi> his lips make not thyself surety.

A busybody is revealing secret counsel, And the faithful of spirit is covering the matter.

Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

Without wood is fire going out, And without a tale-bearer, contention ceaseth,

`Thou dost not go slandering among thy people; thou dost not stand against the blood of thy neighbour; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.

The words of a tale-bearer <FI>are<Fi> as self-inflicted wounds, And they have gone down <FI>to<Fi> the inner parts of the heart.

Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking deceit.

Whoso is covering hatred with lying lips, And whoso is bringing out an evil report is a fool.

and at the same time also, they learn <FI>to be<Fi> idle, going about the houses; and not only idle, but also tattlers and busybodies, speaking the things they ought not;

for I fear lest, having come, not such as I wish I may find you, and I--I may be found by you such as ye do not wish, lest there be strifes, envyings, wraths, revelries, evil-speakings, whisperings, puffings up, insurrections,

If any one doth think to be religious among you, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, of this one vain <FI>is<Fi> the religion;

With the mouth a hypocrite corrupteth his friend, And by knowledge the righteous are drawn out.

`Thou dost not lift up a vain report; thou dost not put thy hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness.

Speak not one against another, brethren; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, doth speak against law, and doth judge law, and if law thou dost judge, thou art not a doer of law but a judge;

Whoso slandereth in secret his neighbour, Him I cut off, The high of eyes and proud of heart, him I endure not.

having been filled with all unrighteousness, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,

These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven <FI>are<Fi> abominations to His soul. — read the full passage →

The words of a tale-bearer <FI>are<Fi> as self-inflicted wounds, And they have gone down <FI>to<Fi> the inner parts of the heart.

Whoso is keeping his mouth and his tongue, Is keeping from adversities his soul.

An evil doer is attentive to lips of vanity, Falsehood is giving ear to a mischievous tongue.

of no one to speak evil, not to be quarrelsome--gentle, showing all meekness to all men,

Whoso is covering transgression is seeking love, And whoso is repeating a matter Is separating a familiar friend.

Set, O Jehovah, a watch for my mouth, Watch Thou over the door of my lips.

A north wind bringeth forth rain, And a secret tongue--indignant faces.

`And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment;

Death and life <FI>are<Fi> in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.

In the abundance of words transgression ceaseth not, And whoso is restraining his lips <FI>is<Fi> wise.

and as ye wish that men may do to you, do ye also to them in like manner;

He who is walking uprightly, And working righteousness, And speaking truth in his heart. — read the full passage →

As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as <FI>are<Fi> grave, as many as <FI>are<Fi> righteous, as many as <FI>are<Fi> pure, as many as <FI>are<Fi> lovely, as many as <FI>are<Fi> of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon;

Whoso is keeping his mouth, is keeping his soul, Whoso is opening wide his lips--ruin to him!

so also the tongue is a little member, and doth boast greatly; lo, a little fire how much wood it doth kindle!

Without wood is fire going out, And without a tale-bearer, contention ceaseth, — read the full passage →

`Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour a false testimony.

having been filled with all unrighteousness, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers, — read the full passage →

And, according as they did not approve of having God in knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mind, to do the things not seemly; — read the full passage →

but now put off, even ye, the whole--anger, wrath, malice, evil-speaking, filthy talking--out of your mouth.

for let none of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or evil-doer, or as an inspector into other men's matters;

`Happy are ye whenever they may reproach you, and may persecute, and may say any evil thing against you falsely for my sake--

your word always in grace--with salt being seasoned--to know how it behoveth you to answer each one.

Let the sayings of my mouth, And the meditation of my heart, Be for a pleasing thing before Thee, O Jehovah, my rock, and my redeemer!

`All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

and the profane vain talkings stand aloof from, for to more impiety they will advance,

A false witness is not acquitted, Whoso breatheth out lies is not delivered.

for we hear of certain walking among you disorderly, nothing working, but over working,

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice,

having been filled with all unrighteousness, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers, — read the full passage →

and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you,

All of them are turned aside by apostates, Walking slanderously--brass and iron, All of them are corrupters.

A healed tongue <FI>is<Fi> a tree of life, And perverseness in it--a breach in the spirit.

Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings,

`And if he may not hear them, say <FI>it<Fi> to the assembly, and if also the assembly he may not hear, let him be to thee as the heathen man and the tax-gatherer.

Let lips of falsehood become dumb, That are speaking against the righteous, Ancient sayings, in pride and contempt.

have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, — read the full passage →

At that hour came the disciples near to Jesus, saying, `Who, now, is greater in the reign of the heavens?' — read the full passage →

Against an elder an accusation receive not, except upon two or three witnesses.

having a good conscience, that in that in which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may be ashamed who are traducing your good behaviour in Christ;

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,

and at the same time also, they learn <FI>to be<Fi> idle, going about the houses; and not only idle, but also tattlers and busybodies, speaking the things they ought not; — read the full passage →

aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance; — read the full passage →

and the tongue no one of men is able to subdue, <FI>it is<Fi> an unruly evil, full of deadly poison,

All hating me whisper together against me, Against me they devise evil to me:

The lips of a fool enter into strife, And his mouth for stripes calleth. — read the full passage →

A worthless man is preparing evil, And on his lips--as a burning fire.

A Psalm of David. Jehovah, who doth sojourn in Thy tent? Who doth dwell in Thy holy hill? — read the full passage →

And if he came to see--vanity he speaketh, His heart gathereth iniquity to itself, He goeth out--at the street he speaketh.

A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack, — read the full passage →

having the secret of the faith in a pure conscience, — read the full passage →

Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

`Judge not, that ye may not be judged,

Whoso is despising his neighbour lacketh heart, And a man of understanding keepeth silence.

and thou hast enquired, and searched, and asked diligently, and lo, truth; the thing is established; this abomination hath been done in thy midst:

He hath not slandered by his tongue, He hath not done to his friend evil; And reproach he hath not lifted up Against his neighbour.

A lying tongue hateth its bruised ones, And a flattering mouth worketh an overthrow!

The Visions of Isaiah son of Amoz, that he hath seen concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

Laying hold on the ears of a dog, <FI>Is<Fi> a passer-by making himself wrath for strife not his own.

Thou sittest, against thy brother thou speakest, Against a son of thy mother givest slander.

An abomination to Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> lying lips, And stedfast doers <FI>are<Fi> his delight.

for we all make many stumbles; if any one in word doth not stumble, this one <FI>is<Fi> a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body;

therefore, prophesy, and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because, even because, of desolating, And of swallowing you up from round about, For your being a possession to the remnant of the nations, And ye are taken up on the tip of the tongue, And <FI>are<Fi> an evil report of the people.

Thy cause plead with thy neighbour, And the secret counsel of another reveal not, — read the full passage →

A false witness is not acquitted, And whoso breatheth out lies perisheth.

Balances of deceit <FI>are<Fi> an abomination to Jehovah, And a perfect weight <FI>is<Fi> His delight. — read the full passage →

And having seen the multitudes, he went up to the mount, and he having sat down, his disciples came to him, — read the full passage →

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

and the tongue <FI>is<Fi> a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.

The mouth of a fool <FI>is<Fi> ruin to him, And his lips <FI>are<Fi> the snare of his soul. — read the full passage →

Women--in like manner grave, not false accusers, vigilant, faithful in all things.

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

A Psalm of David. Jehovah, who doth sojourn in Thy tent? Who doth dwell in Thy holy hill? — read the full passage →

Treasures of wickedness profit not, And righteousness delivereth from death.

aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers,

Of man <FI>are<Fi> arrangements of the heart, And from Jehovah an answer of the tongue. — read the full passage →

evil-speakers, God-haters, insulting, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

and if he may not hear, take with thee yet one or two, that by the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may stand.

He who is walking uprightly, And working righteousness, And speaking truth in his heart.

A soft answer turneth back fury, And a grievous word raiseth up anger.

to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him.

Remind them to be subject to principalities and authorities, to obey rule, unto every good work to be ready, — read the full passage →