Bible Verses about “talking about someone”
The Bible contains 21 verses about talking about someone across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.”
“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.›”
“‹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?›”
“¶ My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:”
“Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.”
“And the tongue [is] a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.”
“But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.”
“Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.”
“For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same [is] a perfect man, [and] able also to bridle the whole body.”
“Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!”
“Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.”
“¶ He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: [but] he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.”
“For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:”
“Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet [water] and bitter?”
“Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.”
“Behold also the ships, which though [they be] so great, and [are] driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.”