Bible Verses about “gossip”
The Bible contains 17 verses about gossip across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.”
“If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion [is] vain.”
“¶ Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of [his] brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.”
“Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,”
“A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.”
“And withal they learn [to be] idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.”
“A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.”
“¶ Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.”
“¶ He that goeth about [as] a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.”
“¶ The words of a talebearer [are] as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.”
“Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.”
“¶ Where no wood is, [there] the fire goeth out: so where [there is] no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.”
“¶ He that hideth hatred [with] lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, [is] a fool.”
“¶ An hypocrite with [his] mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.”
“Thou shalt not go up and down [as] a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I [am] the LORD.”
“Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.”
“For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and [that] I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest [there be] debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:”