Bible Verses about “talking about others”
The Bible contains 30 verses about talking about others 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.”
“¶ ‹Judge not, that ye be not judged.›”
“¶ ‹Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.›”
“‹For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.›”
“‹And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?›”
“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.”
“‹Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.›”
“‹Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam› [is] ‹in thine own eye?›”
“¶ To every [thing there is] a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:”
“‹But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.›”
“¶ Blessed [is] the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.”
“‹Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.›”
“But his delight [is] in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.”
“And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.”
“‹But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne:›”
“‹Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King.›”
“¶ ‹Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths:›”
“To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, [but] gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.”
“¶ Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,”
“¶ The ungodly [are] not so: but [are] like the chaff which the wind driveth away.”
“Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.”
“For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.”
“For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one [point], he is guilty of all.”
“He came unto his own, and his own received him not.”
“A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.”
“He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.”
“[That] was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.”
“The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all [men] through him might believe.”
“He was not that Light, but [was sent] to bear witness of that Light.”
“For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:”