Gossips

GOSSIP: WHAT IS IT AND
WHAT DOES GOD THINK ABOUT IT?

GENESIS 9:21-25 NKJV
     Then he drank of the wine and was drunk, and became uncovered in his tent.
22   And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
23   But Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father's nakedness.
24   So Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done to him.
25   Then he said: "Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants He shall be to his brethren."

LEVITICUS 19:16 NKJV
     'You shall not go about as a talebearer among your people; nor shall you take a stand against the life of your neighbor: I am the Lord.

PSALM 101:5 NKJV
     Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, Him I will destroy; The one who has a haughty look and a proud heart, Him I will not endure.

PROVERBS 11:13 NKJV
     A talebearer reveals secrets, But he who is of a faithful spirit conceals a matter.

PROVERBS 15:4 NKJV
     A wholesome tongue is a tree of life, But perverseness in it breaks the spirit.

PROVERBS 16:28 NKJV
     A perverse man sows strife, And a whisperer separates the best of friends.

PROVERBS 17:9 NKJV
     He who covers a transgression seeks love, But he who repeats a matter separates the best of friends.

PROVERBS 18:8 NKJV
     The words of a talebearer are like tasty trifles, And they go down into the inmost body.

PROVERBS 20:19 NKJV
     He who goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets; Therefore do not associate with one who flatters with his lips.

PROVERBS 25:23 NKJV
     The north wind brings forth rain, And a backbiting tongue an angry countenance.

ROMANS 1:29-30 NKJV
29   being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers,
30   backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

2 CORINTHIANS 12:20 NKJV
     For I fear lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found by
you such as you do not wish; lest there be contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish
ambitions, backbitings, whisperings, conceits, tumults;

1 TIMOTHY 5:13 NKJV
     And besides they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house, and not only idle but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

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