Top 25 Bible Verses About Gossip (NIV)

²⁸ A perverse man stirs up dissension, and a gossip separates close friends.

¹⁹ A gossip betrays a confidence; so avoid a man who talks too much.

²⁹ Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.

¹³ A gossip betrays a confidence, but a trustworthy man keeps a secret.

²⁰ Without wood a fire goes out; without gossip a quarrel dies down.

¹⁶ "'Do not go about spreading slander among your people. "'Do not do anything that endangers your neighbor's life. I am the LORD.

⁸ The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to a man's inmost parts.

¹³ Besides, they get into the habit of being idle and going about from house to house. And not only do they become idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things they ought not to.

²⁰ For I am afraid that when I come I may not find you as I want you to be, and you may not find me as you want me to be. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder.

¹³ keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking lies.

²⁶ If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless.

¹ "Do not spread false reports. Do not help a wicked man by being a malicious witness.

¹⁸ He who conceals his hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool.

¹¹ Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it.

²⁹ They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,

⁵ Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, him will I put to silence; whoever has haughty eyes and a proud heart, him will I not endure.

¹⁶ There are six things the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to him: ¹⁷ haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, ¹⁸ a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil, ¹⁹ a false witness who pours out lies and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers.

²³ He who guards his mouth and his tongue keeps himself from calamity.

²² The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to a man's inmost parts.

⁴ A wicked man listens to evil lips; a liar pays attention to a malicious tongue.

⁹ With his mouth the godless destroys his neighbor, but through knowledge the righteous escape.

² to slander no one, to be peaceable and considerate, and to show true humility toward all men.

⁹ He who covers over an offense promotes love, but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends.

³ Set a guard over my mouth, O LORD; keep watch over the door of my lips.

²³ As a north wind brings rain, so a sly tongue brings angry looks.