Bible verses about "gossip" | ECB

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JUDGMENT AND MERCY
Neither bear a vain report: nor put your hand with the wicked to become a witness of violence.

¹³ Guard your tongue from evil and your lips from wording deceit:

⁵ whoever covertly tongue-lashes his friend, I exterminate: a lofty eye and an enlarged heart, I am not able.

¹⁶ These six Yah Veh hates; yes, seven are an abhorrence to his soul; ¹⁷ a lofty eye; a false tongue; and hands pouring innocent blood; ¹⁸ a heart inscribing mischievous fabrications; feet hastening to run to evil; ¹⁹ a false witness breathing lies; - spreading contention among brothers.

¹⁸ He who hides hatred with false lips and he who utters a slander, is a fool.

²⁹ being filled with all injustice, whoredom, evil, avarice, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, mischievousness, whisperers,

¹³ and simultaneously they learn to be idle wandering about the houses: and not only idle, but also babblers and overworking; speaking what they must not.

²⁶ If anyone among you thinks himself as being ceremonious and bridles not his tongue but deludes his own heart - the ceremony of this man is vain.

²⁰ For I awe, lest somehow, when I come, I find you not such as I willed and that you find me such as you had not willed: lest somehow there be contentions, zeals, furies, rivalries, slanders, whisperings, puffings, instabilities:

¹¹ Slander not one another, brothers. whoever slanders his brother and judges his brother slanders the torah and judges the torah: but if you judge the torah, you are not a doer of the torah, but a judge.

² to blaspheme no one, to be amicable, gentle, to indicate all meekness to all humanity.

¹⁶ neither be a talebearer among your people: nor stand against the blood of your friend; I - Yah Veh.

⁸ The words of a whisperer inflame - descending to the chambers of the belly.

¹³ A walking talebearer exposes private counsel; and he of a trustworthy spirit conceals the word.

²⁰ Where the final timber is, the fire goes out; thus where no whisperer is, the strife subsides.

²⁹ Have no putrefied word proceed from your mouth; but if there be any good to the edifying of what is needed that it give charism to the hearers.

²⁸ a man of perversions sends strife; and a whisperer separates chiliarchs:

¹⁹ A talebearer exposes private counsel; meddle not with him who entices with his lips.