- “A perverse person stirs up conflict, and a gossip separates close friends.” – Proverbs 16:28
“A perverse person stirs up conflict, and a gossip separates close friends.”
- “Do not spread false reports. Do not help a guilty person by being a malicious witness.” – Exodus 23:1
“Do not spread false reports. Do not help a guilty person by being a malicious witness.”
- “Whoever conceals hatred with lying lips and spreads slander is a fool.” – Proverbs 10:18
“Whoever conceals hatred with lying lips and spreads slander is a fool.”
- “Set a guard over my mouth, Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips.” – Psalm 141:3
“Set a guard over my mouth, Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips.”
- “Without wood a fire goes out; without a gossip a quarrel dies down.” – Proverbs 26:20
“Without wood a fire goes out; without a gossip a quarrel dies down.”
- “But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.” – Colossians 3:8
“But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.”
- “Whoever slanders their neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; whoever has haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not tolerate.” – Psalm 101:5
“Whoever slanders their neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; whoever has haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not tolerate.”
- “For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases.” – Proverbs 26:20 (ESV)
“For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases.”
- “But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people.” – 1 Corinthians 5:11
“But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people.”
- “The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.” – Proverbs 18:8 (ESV)
“The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.”
- “Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets; therefore do not associate with a simple babbler.” – Proverbs 20:19 (ESV)
“Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets; therefore do not associate with a simple babbler.”
- “Besides that, they learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not.” – 1 Timothy 5:13 (ESV)
“Besides that, they learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not.”
- “A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech, winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, points with his finger, with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord; therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.” – Proverbs 6:12-15 (ESV)
“A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech, winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, points with his finger, with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord; therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.”
- “Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly I will destroy. Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart I will not endure.” – Psalm 101:5 (ESV)
“Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly I will destroy. Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart I will not endure.”
- “For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies.” – 2 Thessalonians 3:11 (ESV)
“For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies.”
- “For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.” – Matthew 12:37 (ESV)
“For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
- “And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.” – James 3:6 (ESV)
“And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.”
- “You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand up against the life of your neighbor: I am the Lord.” – Leviticus 19:16 (ESV)
“You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand up against the life of your neighbor: I am the Lord.”
- “They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips.” – Romans 1:29 (ESV)
“They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips.”
- “Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.” – 1 Peter 3:9 (ESV)
“Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.”
- “Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly I will destroy. Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart I will not endure.” – Psalm 101:5 (ESV)
“Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly I will destroy. Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart I will not endure.”
- “Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.” – Ephesians 4:29 (ESV)
“Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.”
- “Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets; therefore do not associate with a simple babbler.” – Proverbs 20:19 (ESV)
“Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets; therefore do not associate with a simple babbler.”
- “Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets; therefore do not associate with a simple babbler.” – Proverbs 20:19 (ESV)
“Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets; therefore do not associate with a simple babbler.”
- “For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases.” – Proverbs 26:20 (ESV)
“For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases.”
- “A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will not escape.” – Proverbs 19:5 (ESV)
“A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will not escape.”
- “Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.” – Ephesians 5:4 (ESV)
“Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.”
- “For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases.” – Proverbs 26:20 (ESV)
“For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases.”
- “Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets; therefore do not associate with a simple babbler.” – Proverbs 20:19 (ESV)
“Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets; therefore do not associate with a simple babbler.”
- “A fool’s lips walk into a fight, and his mouth invites a beating.” – Proverbs 18:6 (ESV)
“A fool’s lips walk into a fight, and his mouth invites a beating.”
