Gossip & Slander Bible Verses

2 CORINTHIANS 12:20

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and [that] I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest [there be] debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults: ...

1 TIMOTHY 5:13

And withal they learn [to be] idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. ...

TITUS 3:2

To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, [but] gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men. ...

1 PETER 2:1

Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, ...

1 PETER 3:10-11

1 Peter 3:10: For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
1 Peter 3:11: Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
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PROVERBS 6:16-19

Proverbs 6:16: # These six [things] doth the LORD hate: yea, seven [are] an abomination unto him:
Proverbs 6:17: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Proverbs 6:18: An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
Proverbs 6:19: A false witness [that] speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
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PROVERBS 25:23

The north wind driveth away rain: so [doth] an angry countenance a backbiting tongue. ...

PROVERBS 12:22

Lying lips [are] abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly [are] his delight. ...

PROVERBS 10:18

He that hideth hatred [with] lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, [is] a fool. ...

MATTHEW 5:21-22

Matthew 5:21: # Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:
Matthew 5:22: But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
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MATTHEW 7:1-5

Matthew 7:1: Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Matthew 7:2: For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
Matthew 7:3: And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Matthew 7:4: Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam [is] in thine own eye?
Matthew 7:5: Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
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LUKE 12:1-3

Luke 12:1: In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
Luke 12:2: For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.
Luke 12:3: Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.
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