Gossip & Slander Bible Verses

PSALMS 34:13

Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. ...

PSALMS 50:19-20

Psalms 50:19: Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
Psalms 50:20: Thou sittest [and] speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
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PSALMS 64:3-4

Psalms 64:3: Who whet their tongue like a sword, [and] bend [their bows to shoot] their arrows, [even] bitter words:
Psalms 64:4: That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
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PSALMS 140:3

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison [is] under their lips. Selah. ...

ISAIAH 29:20-21

Isaiah 29:20: For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
Isaiah 29:21: That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
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ISAIAH 59:3-4

Isaiah 59:3: For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
Isaiah 59:4: None calleth for justice, nor [any] pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
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JEREMIAH 9:3-6

Jeremiah 9:3: And they bend their tongues [like] their bow [for] lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 9:4: Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.
Jeremiah 9:5: And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, [and] weary themselves to commit iniquity.
Jeremiah 9:6: Thine habitation [is] in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
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JEREMIAH 9:8-9

Jeremiah 9:8: Their tongue [is as] an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: [one] speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
Jeremiah 9:9: # Shall I not visit them for these [things]? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
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ZEPHANIAH 3:9-13

Zephaniah 3:9: For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.
Zephaniah 3:10: From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, [even] the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering.
Zephaniah 3:11: In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.
Zephaniah 3:12: I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the LORD.
Zephaniah 3:13: The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make [them] afraid.
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MATTHEW 5:43-48

Matthew 5:43: # Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
Matthew 5:44: But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
Matthew 5:45: That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
Matthew 5:46: For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
Matthew 5:47: And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more [than others]? do not even the publicans so?
Matthew 5:48: Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
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MATTHEW 12:33-37

Matthew 12:33: Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by [his] fruit.
Matthew 12:34: O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
Matthew 12:35: A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
Matthew 12:36: But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
Matthew 12:37: For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
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LUKE 19:8-10

Luke 19:8: And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore [him] fourfold.
Luke 19:9: And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham.
Luke 19:10: For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
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