Gossipers

I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.

There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him: — read the full passage →

A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

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

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.

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.

He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.

“‘You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people. “‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.

One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.

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

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.

He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.

The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.

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.

A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire.

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.

backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

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

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;

He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor, but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

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

Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

He who rejects me, and doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day.

Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching, the same has both the Father and the Son. — read the full passage →

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;

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

The north wind produces rain: so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.

“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, — 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 →

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

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

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.

An evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.

He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

Now these are the heads of their fathers’ households, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king: — read the full passage →

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

John answered them, “I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you don’t know.

In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning? — read the full passage →

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.

He who walks blamelessly does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart; — read the full passage →

I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ has come; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →

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

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.

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

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

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

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

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

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

therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people;

They are all grievous rebels, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.

For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down. — read the full passage →

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.

All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; — read the full passage →

One who despises his neighbor is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding holds his peace.

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.

You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.

Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. — read the full passage →

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.”

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

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

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

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

without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,

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

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 →

holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. — 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.

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

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

But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn’t blow the trumpet, and the people aren’t warned, and the sword comes, and take any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.

Debate your case with your neighbor, and don’t betray the confidence of another; — read the full passage →

A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings. — read the full passage →

If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

He who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;

After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag; — read the full passage →

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →