Gossip And Lies

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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;

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

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;

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

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

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

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. — read the full passage →

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ; — read the full passage →

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

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

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

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 →

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

they told him, “Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act. — read the full passage →

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

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.

through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;

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

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

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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

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.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

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

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

“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.

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

Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — read the full passage →

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 →