Bible verses about "rumors" | Moffatt

² they must abuse no one, they must not quarrel, but be conciliatory and display perfect gentleness to all men. ³ For we ourselves were once senseless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to all manner of passions and pleasures; we spent our days in malice and envy, we were hateful, and we hated one another. ⁴ But "the goodness and affection of God our Saviour appeared; ⁵ and he saved us, not for anything we had done but from his own pity for us, by the water that means regeneration and renewal under the holy Spirit ⁶ which he poured upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour, ⁷ that we might be justified by his grace and become heirs to the hope of life eternal." ⁸ It is a sure saying. I want you to insist on this, that those who have faith in God must profess honest occupations. Such counsels are right and good for men. ⁹ But avoid foolish controversy, and let genealogies and dissensions and strife over the Law alone, for these are fruitless and futile.

¹² Well then, whatever you would like men to do to you, do just the same to them; that is the meaning of the Law and the prophets.

³ We put bridles into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, and so, you see, we can move the whole of their bodies. ⁴ Look at ships too; for all their size and speed under stiff winds, they are turned by a tiny rudder wherever the mind of the steersman chooses. ⁵ So the tongue is a small member of the body, but it can boast of great exploits. What a forest is set ablaze by a little spark of fire! ⁶ And the tongue is a fire, the tongue proves a very world of mischief among our members, staining the whole of the body and setting fire to the round circle of existence with a flame fed by hell. ⁷ For while every kind of beast and bird, of creeping animals and creatures marine, is tameable and has been tamed by mankind, ⁸ no man can tame the tongue — plague of disorder that it is, full of deadly venom!

²³ Shut your mind against foolish, popular controversy; be sure that only breeds strife.

¹ Where do conflicts, where do wrangles come from, in your midst? Is it not from these passions of yours that war among your members? ² You crave, and miss what you want: you envy and covet, but you cannot acquire: you wrangle and fight — you miss what you want because you do not ask God for it;