TOPICAL STUDY

GOSSIP

 

LEV 19:16 Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people:

neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour; I am the LORD.

PSA 34:13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

PSA 101:5 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that

hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.

PRO 6:19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among

brethren.

PRO 10:18 He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a

slander, is a fool.

PRO 11:9 An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through

knowledge shall the just be delivered.

PRO 11:13 A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit

concealeth the matter.

PRO 16:28 A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief

friends.

PRO 17:9 He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a

matter separateth very friends.

PRO 18:8 The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the

innermost parts of the belly.

PRO 20:19 He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore

meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.

PRO 26:20 Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no

talebearer, the strife ceaseth.

ECC 10:11 Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no

better.

MAT 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.

EPH 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.

EPH 4:31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil

speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

2TH 3:11 For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly,

working not at all, but are busybodies.

1TI 3:11 Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in

all things.

1TI 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.

TIT 2:3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh

holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

TIT 3:1 Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey

magistrates, to be ready to every good work,

TIT 3:2 To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all

meekness unto all men.

JAM 4:11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his

brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law:

but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

1PE 2:1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and

envies, all evil speakings,

1PE 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.