Bible verses about "gossip" | Wycliffe

¹ Thou schalt not resseyue a vois of leesyng, nether thou schalt ioyne thin hond, that thou seie fals witnessyng for a wickid man.

¹³ But whanne thei weren diseseful to me; Y was clothid in an heire. I mekide my soule in fastyng; and my preier schal be turned `with ynne my bosum.

¹⁶ Sixe thingis ben, whyche the Lord hatith; and hise soule cursith the seuenthe thing. ¹⁷ Hiye iyen, a tunge liere, hondis schedinge out innocent blood, ¹⁸ an herte ymagynynge worste thouytis, feet swifte to renne in to yuel, ¹⁹ a man bringynge forth lesingis, a fals witnesse; and him that sowith discordis among britheren.

⁵ I am smytun as hei, and myn herte dried vp; for Y haue foryete to eete my breed.

¹⁸ False lippis hiden hatrede; he that bringith forth dispisinge is vnwijs.

²⁰ But Y drede, lest whanne Y come, Y schal fynde you not suche as Y wole, and Y schal be foundun of you suche as ye wolen not; lest perauenture stryuyngis, enuyes, sturdynessis, dissenciouns and detraccions, preuy spechis of discord, bolnyngis bi pride, debatis ben among you;

²⁹ malice, fornycacioun, coueitise, weiwardnesse, ful of enuye, mansleyngis, strijf, gile, yuel wille, preuy bacbiteris, detractouris,

¹³ Also thei idil lernen to go aboute housis, not oneli ydel, but ful of wordis and curiouse, spekynge thingis that bihoueth not.

²⁶ And if ony man gessith hym silf to be religiouse, and refreyneth not his tunge, but disseyueth his herte, the religioun of him is veyn.

¹¹ My britheren, nyle ye bacbite ech othere. He that bacbitith his brothir, ethir that demeth his brothir, bacbitith the lawe, and demeth the lawe. And if thou demest the lawe, thou art not a doere of the lawe, but a domesman.

² to blasfeme no man, to be not ful of chiding, but temperat, schewynge al myldenesse to alle men.

¹⁶ Thou schalt not be a sclaunderere, nether a priuey bacbitere in the puplis; thou schalt not stonde ayens the blood of thi neiybore; Y am the Lord.

⁸ The wordis of a double tungid man ben as symple; and tho comen `til to the ynnere thingis of the wombe. Drede castith doun a slowe man; forsothe the soulis of men turned in to wymmens condicioun schulen haue hungur.

¹³ He that goith gilefuli, schewith priuetees; but he that is feithful, helith the priuetee of a freend.

²⁰ Whanne trees failen, the fier schal be quenchid; and whanne a priuy bacbitere is withdrawun, stryues resten.

²⁹ Ech yuel word go not of youre mouth; but if ony is good to the edificacioun of feith, that it yyue grace to men that heren.

²⁸ A weiward man reisith stryues; and a man ful of wordis departith princis.

¹⁹ Be thou not medlid with him that schewith pryuetees, and goith gylefulli, and alargith hise lippis.