Gossip & Slander Bible Verses

ROMANS 14:10-13

Romans 14:10: But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
Romans 14:11: For it is written, [As] I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
Romans 14:12: So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.
Romans 14:13: Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in [his] brother's way.
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GALATIANS 5:15

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. ...

EPHESIANS 4:25-32

Ephesians 4:25: Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
Ephesians 4:26: Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
Ephesians 4:27: Neither give place to the devil.
Ephesians 4:28: Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with [his] hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Ephesians 4:29: Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Ephesians 4:30: And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
Ephesians 4:31: Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Ephesians 4:32: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
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COLOSSIANS 3:8

But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. ...

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 6:4

He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, ...

JAMES 1:26

If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion [is] vain. ...

JAMES 3:5-12

James 3:5: Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
James 3:6: And the tongue [is] a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
James 3:7: For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
James 3:8: But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
James 3:9: Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
James 3:10: Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
James 3:11: Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet [water] and bitter?
James 3:12: Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so [can] no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
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1 PETER 2:11-12

1 Peter 2:11: Dearly beloved, I beseech [you] as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
1 Peter 2:12: Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by [your] good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
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2 PETER 2:1-3

2 Peter 2:1: But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2 Peter 2:2: And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
2 Peter 2:3: And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
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TITUS 1:10-11

Titus 1:10: For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
Titus 1:11: Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
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PROVERBS 18:7-8

Proverbs 18:7: A fool's mouth [is] his destruction, and his lips [are] the snare of his soul.
Proverbs 18:8: The words of a talebearer [are] as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
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