Bible Verses about Gossip
| A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends. | A perverse person spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends. |
| He who walks blamelessly and does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart; he who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man. | Those who walk blamelessly, and do what is right, and speak the truth from their heart; who do not slander with their tongue, and do no evil to their friends, nor take up a reproach against their neighbors. |
| One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret. | A gossip goes about telling secrets, but one who is trustworthy in spirit keeps a confidence. |
| Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear. | Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only what is useful for building up, as there is need, so that your words may give grace to those who hear. |
| With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor, but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge. | With their mouths the godless would destroy their neighbors, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered. |
| He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool. | Lying lips conceal hatred, and whoever utters slander is a fool. |
| Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake. | Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. |
| Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom. | Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, sodomites, thieves, the greedy, drunkards, revilers, robbers—none of these will inherit the kingdom of God. |
| Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies. | Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit. |
| A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit. | A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit. |
| The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts. | The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body. |
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