Gossip

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;

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;

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;

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

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

`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;

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

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;

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

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.

`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,

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,

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.

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,

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,

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;

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.

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 →

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

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.

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 →