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 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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,”
“A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.”
“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.”
“One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.”
“"You shall not spread a false report. Don't join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.”
“He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don't keep company with him who opens wide his lips.”
“The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person's innermost parts.”
“Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.”
“For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.”
“He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.”
“With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor, but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge.”
“"'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.”
“I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won't tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.”
“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;”