Gossip And Lies

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;

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;

`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;

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

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;

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;

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

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

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;

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,

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

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

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

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

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

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

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him <FI>in<Fi> all things, who is the head--the Christ; — read the full passage →

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

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

`Ye are of a father--the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar--also his father.

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 →

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

they say to him, `Teacher, this woman was taken in the very crime--committing adultery, — read the full passage →

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

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;

in hypocrisy speaking lies, being seared in their own conscience,

`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.

`Judge not, that ye may not be judged,

There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit; — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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

`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.

and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part <FI>is<Fi> in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'

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

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

I have known thy works, and thy labour, and thy endurance, and that thou art not able to bear evil ones, and that thou hast tried those saying themselves to be apostles and are not, and hast found them liars,

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

Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices,

`The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have <FI>it<Fi> abundantly.

that through two immutable things, in which <FI>it is<Fi> impossible for God to lie, a strong comfort we may have who did flee for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before <FI>us<Fi> ,

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction, — read the full passage →

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 →