Gossip And Lies

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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;

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

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

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

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am 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 as a meddler in other men’s matters:

Judge not, that ye be not judged. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and standeth not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

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 →

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

they say unto him, Teacher, this woman hath been taken in adultery, in the very act. — read the full passage →

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

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.

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

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.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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

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.

But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.

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

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

I know thy works, and thy toil and patience, and that thou canst not bear evil men, and didst try them that call themselves apostles, and they are not, and didst find them false;

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

lie not one to another; seeing that ye have put off the old man with his doings,

The thief cometh not, but that he may steal, and 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 lay hold of the hope set before us:

Now faith is assurance ofthingshoped for, a conviction of things not seen. — read the full passage →

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 →