Gossipers

Whoso slandereth in secret his neighbour, Him I cut off, The high of eyes and proud of heart, him I endure not.

These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven <FI>are<Fi> abominations to His soul. — read the full passage →

A froward man sendeth forth contention, A tale-bearer is separating a familiar friend.

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

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;

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;

A revealer of secret counsels is the busybody, And for a deceiver <FI>with<Fi> his lips make not thyself surety.

`Thou dost not go slandering among thy people; thou dost not stand against the blood of thy neighbour; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.

A busybody is revealing secret counsel, And the faithful of spirit is covering the matter.

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

My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one, — read the full passage →

Without wood is fire going out, And without a tale-bearer, contention ceaseth,

Whoso is covering transgression is seeking love, And whoso is repeating a matter Is separating a familiar friend.

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.

The words of a tale-bearer <FI>are<Fi> as self-inflicted wounds, And they have gone down <FI>to<Fi> the inner parts of the heart.

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;

A worthless man is preparing evil, And on his lips--as a burning fire.

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;

evil-speakers, God-haters, insulting, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

James, of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ a servant, to the Twelve Tribes who are in the dispersion: Hail! — read the full passage →

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

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,

Whoso is covering hatred with lying lips, And whoso is bringing out an evil report is a fool.

Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking deceit.

With the mouth a hypocrite corrupteth his friend, And by knowledge the righteous are drawn out.

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

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

Whoso is keeping his mouth and his tongue, Is keeping from adversities his soul.

Hatred awaketh contentions, And over all transgressions love covereth.

be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

`He who is rejecting me, and not receiving my sayings, hath one who is judging him, the word that I spake, that will judge him in the last day,

every one who is transgressing, and is not remaining in the teaching of the Christ, hath not God; he who is remaining in the teaching of the Christ, this one hath both the Father and the Son; — 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,

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 →

teaching them to observe all, whatever I did command you,) and lo, I am with you all the days--till the full end of the age.'

`Happy are ye whenever they may reproach you, and may persecute, and may say any evil thing against you falsely for my sake--

A north wind bringeth forth rain, And a secret tongue--indignant faces.

`Thou dost not lift up a vain report; thou dost not put thy hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness.

And the Spirit expressly speaketh, that in latter times shall certain fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons, — 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 →

`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;

Death and life <FI>are<Fi> in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.

A healed tongue <FI>is<Fi> a tree of life, And perverseness in it--a breach in the spirit.

Set, O Jehovah, a watch for my mouth, Watch Thou over the door of my lips.

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;

An evil doer is attentive to lips of vanity, Falsehood is giving ear to a mischievous tongue.

Whoso is keeping his mouth, is keeping his soul, Whoso is opening wide his lips--ruin to him!

And these <FI>are<Fi> heads of their fathers, and the genealogy of those going up with me, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king, from Babylon. — read the full passage →

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 →

and now, why tarriest thou? having risen, baptize thyself, and wash away thy sins, calling upon the name of the Lord.

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

John answered them, saying, `I baptize with water, but in midst of you he hath stood whom ye have not known, this one it is who is coming after me, who hath been before me,

In the abundance of words transgression ceaseth not, And whoso is restraining his lips <FI>is<Fi> wise.

To the Overseer, on `The Hind of the Morning.' --A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation, The words of my roaring? — read the full passage →

Let the sayings of my mouth, And the meditation of my heart, Be for a pleasing thing before Thee, O Jehovah, my rock, and my redeemer!

He who is walking uprightly, And working righteousness, And speaking truth in his heart. — read the full passage →

And I heard a great voice saying in the heaven, `Now did come the salvation, and the power, and the reign, of our God, and the authority of His Christ, because cast down was the accuser of our brethren, who is accusing them before our God day and night;

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,

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

Women--in like manner grave, not false accusers, vigilant, faithful in all things.

I exhort, then, first of all, there be made supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, for all men: — read the full passage →

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

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;

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

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

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,

Who shall separate us from the love of the Christ? tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

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

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good news of God-- — read the full passage →

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

therefore, prophesy, and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because, even because, of desolating, And of swallowing you up from round about, For your being a possession to the remnant of the nations, And ye are taken up on the tip of the tongue, And <FI>are<Fi> an evil report of the people.

All of them are turned aside by apostates, Walking slanderously--brass and iron, All of them are corrupters.

Without wood is fire going out, And without a tale-bearer, contention ceaseth, — read the full passage →

A false witness is not acquitted, Whoso breatheth out lies is not delivered.

All hating me whisper together against me, Against me they devise evil to me:

An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren; — read the full passage →

Whoso is despising his neighbour lacketh heart, And a man of understanding keepeth silence.

Treasures of wickedness profit not, And righteousness delivereth from death.

Thou sittest, against thy brother thou speakest, Against a son of thy mother givest slander.

And Moab transgresseth against Israel after the death of Ahab, — read the full passage →

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.'

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

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

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

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

without natural affection, implacable, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, not lovers of those who are good,

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

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 →

having the secret of the faith in a pure conscience, — read the full passage →

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

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

`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 watchman, when he seeth the sword coming in, And he hath not blown with a trumpet, And the people hath not been warned, And come in doth a sword, And taketh away of them--a soul, He in his iniquity is taken away, And his blood from the hand of the watchman I require.

Thy cause plead with thy neighbour, And the secret counsel of another reveal not, — read the full passage →

The lips of a fool enter into strife, And his mouth for stripes calleth. — read the full passage →

And if he came to see--vanity he speaketh, His heart gathereth iniquity to itself, He goeth out--at the street he speaketh.

He hath not slandered by his tongue, He hath not done to his friend evil; And reproach he hath not lifted up Against his neighbour.

And it cometh to pass, after the death of Saul, that David hath returned from smiting the Amalekite, and David dwelleth in Ziklag two days, — read the full passage →

`Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour a false testimony.

In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth-- — read the full passage →