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Bible Verses About Gossip

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Compiled by The BibleStudyTools Staff on 07/28/2021
Bible Verses About Gossip

Bible Verses about Gossip and Slander

Everyone has experienced the harm of gossip before. Whether the people talking didn't mean direct harm, the result of gossip is always broken trust and hurt feelings. Gossip can be defined as information about the behavior or personal life of other people, often without the full truth revealed or known. God's Word warns us to stay away from people who gossip and to guard our words when we speak about others!

Scripture also uses the word slander which means making a false spoken statement damaging to a person's reputation. Slander can destroy someone's marriage, job, wealth, and family. The tongue has power and we must be careful with how we use our words. The Bible tells us what words we should speak and which we should not. If you are struggling with gossip or know someone who gossips a lot, study these Bible verses and choose to help put a stop to it.

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2 Corinthians 12:20

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 discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder.
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Ephesians 4:29

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.
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Exodus 23:1

1 “Do not spread false reports. Do not help a guilty person by being a malicious witness.
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James 1:26

26 Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless.
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James 4:11

11 Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister or judges them speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it.
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Leviticus 19:16

16 “ ‘Do not go about spreading slander among your people. “ ‘Do not do anything that endangers your neighbor’s life. I am the LORD.
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Proverbs 10:18

18 Whoever conceals hatred with lying lips and spreads slander is a fool.
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Proverbs 10:19

19 Sin is not ended by multiplying words, but the prudent hold their tongues.
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Proverbs 11:9

9 With their mouths the godless destroy their neighbors, but through knowledge the righteous escape.
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Proverbs 11:13

13 A gossip betrays a confidence, but a trustworthy person keeps a secret.
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Proverbs 16:28

28 A perverse person stirs up conflict, and a gossip separates close friends.
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Proverbs 17:9

9 Whoever would foster love covers over an offense, but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends.
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Proverbs 18:8

8 The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to the inmost parts.
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Proverbs 18:21

21 The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
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Proverbs 20:19

19 A gossip betrays a confidence; so avoid anyone who talks too much.
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Proverbs 26:20

20 Without wood a fire goes out; without a gossip a quarrel dies down.
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Psalms 34:13

13 keep your tongue from evil and your lips from telling lies.
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Psalms 41:7

7 All my enemies whisper together against me; they imagine the worst for me, saying,
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Psalms 141:3

3 Set a guard over my mouth, LORD; keep watch over the door of my lips.
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Proverbs 18:6-7

6 The lips of fools bring them strife, and their mouths invite a beating.
7 The mouths of fools are their undoing, and their lips are a snare to their very lives.
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1 Timothy 5:13-14

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 busybodies who talk nonsense, saying things they ought not to.
14 So I counsel younger widows to marry, to have children, to manage their homes and to give the enemy no opportunity for slander.
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1 Timothy 3:9-11

9 They must keep hold of the deep truths of the faith with a clear conscience.
10 They must first be tested; and then if there is nothing against them, let them serve as deacons.
11 In the same way, the women are to be worthy of respect, not malicious talkers but temperate and trustworthy in everything.
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Proverbs 26:20-22

20 Without wood a fire goes out; without a gossip a quarrel dies down.
21 As charcoal to embers and as wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome person for kindling strife.
22 The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to the inmost parts.
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Romans 1:29-32

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,
30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;
31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy.
32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
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Titus 2:2-5

2 Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance.
3 Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good.
4 Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children,
5 to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.
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Romans 1:28-32

28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.
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,
30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;
31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy.
32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
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