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Bible Questions Answered:
“...my
friend always tells me all the junk she has heard...I don't know just
what to tell her...”
Sandy/
Newport, Tennessee U.S.A.
Bible Answer:
Bible Texts:
Gossip:
A person who habitually reveals personal or sensational
facts about others.
Merriam-Webster.Com
Idle talk or rumor, especially about the personal or
private affairs of others.
Dictionary.Com
Gossip,
The Word:
Exodus
23:1 NLT
“You
must not pass along false rumors..."
Leviticus
19:16 NLT
“Do
not spread slanderous gossip among your people..."
Psalm
5:9 KJV
For
there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very
wickedness; their throat is an open sepulcher; they flatter with
their tongue.
Psalm
34:11-13 NLT
11
Come, my children, and listen to me, and I will teach you to fear The
Lord.
12
Does anyone want to live a life that is long and prosperous?
13
Then keep your tongue from speaking evil and your lips from telling
lies!
Psalm
39:1 KJV
I
said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I
will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
Psalm
50:19-22 NLT
19
Your mouth is filled with wickedness, and your tongue is full of
lies.
20
You sit around and slander your brother— your own mother’s son.
21
While you did all this, I remained silent, and you thought I didn’t
care. But now I will rebuke you, listing all My charges against you.
22
Repent, all of you who forget Me, or I will tear you apart, and no
one will help you.
Psalm
52:1-5 NLT
1
Why do you boast about your crimes, great warrior? Don’t you
realize God’s justice continues forever?
2
All day long you plot destruction. Your tongue cuts like a sharp
razor; you’re an expert at telling lies.
3
You love evil more than good and lies more than truth. Interlude
4
You love to destroy others with your words, you liar!
5
But God will strike you down once and for all. He will pull you from
your home and uproot you from the land of the living.
Psalm
57:4-6 NLT
4
I am surrounded by fierce lions who greedily devour human prey—whose
teeth pierce like spears and arrows, and whose tongues cut like
swords.
5
Be exalted, O God, above the highest heavens! May your glory shine
over all the earth.
6
My enemies have set a trap for me. I am weary from distress.
They
have dug a deep pit in my path, but they themselves have fallen into
it.
Proverbs
10:18 NLT
Hiding
hatred makes you a liar; slandering others makes you a fool.
Proverbs
11:13 NLT
A
gossip goes around telling secrets, but those who are trustworthy can
keep a confidence.
Proverbs
16:28 NLT
A
troublemaker plants seeds of strife; gossip separates the best of
friends.
Proverbs
17:9 NLT
Love
prospers when a fault is forgiven, but dwelling on it separates close
friends.
Proverbs
18:6,7,21 NLT
6
Fools’ words get them into constant quarrels; they are asking for a
beating.
7
The mouths of fools are their ruin; they trap themselves with their
lips.
21
The tongue can bring death or life; those who love to talk will reap
the consequences.
Proverbs
20:19 NLT
A
gossip goes around telling secrets, so don’t hang around with
chatterers.
Proverbs
25:18 NLT
Telling
lies about others is as harmful as hitting them with an ax, wounding
them with a sword, or shooting them with a sharp arrow.
Proverbs
26;20 NLT
Fire
goes out without wood, and quarrels disappear when gossip stops.
Romans
1:28,29 NLT
28
Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, He abandoned them
to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be
done.
29
Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed,
hate, envy, murder, quarreling, deception, malicious behavior, and
gossip.
II
Corinthians 12:20 NLT
For
I am afraid that when I come I won’t like what I find, and you
won’t like my response. I am afraid that I will find quarreling,
jealousy, anger, selfishness, slander, gossip, arrogance, and
disorderly behavior.
Ephesians
4:29 NLT
Don’t
use foul or abusive language. Let everything you say be good and
helpful, so that your words will be an encouragement to those who
hear them.
II
Thessalonians 3:11,12 NLT
11
Yet we hear that some of you are living idle lives, refusing to work
and meddling in other people’s business.
12
We command such people and urge them in the name of The Lord Jesus
Christ to settle down and work to earn their own living.
I
Timothy 5:13 NLT
And
if they are on the list, they will learn to be lazy and will spend
their time gossiping from house to house, meddling in other people’s
business and talking about things they shouldn’t.
Titus
3:1,2 NLT
1
Remind the believers...
2
They must not slander anyone and must avoid quarreling. Instead, they
should be gentle and show true humility to everyone.
James
1:26 NLT
If
you claim to be religious but don’t control your tongue, you are
fooling yourself, and your religion is worthless.
James 3:2-12 NLT (Someone always dumping gossip
on you? Tell them, “you need to read James 3!”
2
“...we all make many mistakes. For if we could control our tongues,
we would be perfect and could also control ourselves in every other
way.
3
We can make a large horse go wherever we want by means of a small bit
in its mouth.
4
And a small rudder makes a huge ship turn wherever the pilot chooses
to go, even though the winds are strong.
5
In the same way, the tongue is a small thing that makes grand
speeches. But a tiny spark can set a great forest on fire.
6
And among all the parts of the body, the tongue is a flame of fire.
It is a whole world of wickedness, corrupting your entire body. It
can set your whole life on fire, for it is set on fire by hell
itself.
7
People can tame all kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and fish,
8
but no one can tame the tongue. It is restless and evil, full of
deadly poison.
9
Sometimes it praises our Lord and Father, and sometimes it curses
those who have been made in the image of God.
10
And so blessing and cursing come pouring out of the same mouth.
Surely, my brothers and sisters, this is not right!
11
Does a spring of water bubble out with both fresh water and bitter
water?
12
Does a fig tree produce olives, or a grapevine produce figs? No, and
you can’t draw fresh water from a salty spring.
James 4:11,12 NLT (Warning against Judging
Others)
11
Don’t speak evil against each other, dear brothers and sisters. If
you criticize and judge each other, then you are criticizing and
judging God’s law. But your job is to obey the law, not to judge
whether it applies to you.
12
God alone, who gave the law, is The Judge. He alone has the power to
save or to destroy. So what right do you have to judge your neighbor?
I
Peter 3:10 KJV
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:
Prayer:
Psalm
15:1-3 NLT
1
Who may worship in your sanctuary, Lord? Who may enter your presence
on your holy hill?
2
Those who lead blameless lives and do what is right, speaking The
Truth from sincere hearts.
3
Those who refuse to gossip or harm their neighbors or speak evil of
their friends.
Psalm
19:14 KJV
Let
the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable
in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.
Psalm
120:2 KJV
Deliver
my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
Psalm
141:3,4 NLT
3
Take control of what I say, O Lord, and guard my lips.
4
Don’t let me drift toward evil or take part in acts of wickedness.
Don’t let me share in the delicacies of those who do wrong.
