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100 Bible Verses about Gossip And Lies Kjv

Proverbs 16:28 ESV / 208 helpful votes

A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.

Proverbs 20:19 ESV / 188 helpful votes

Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets; therefore do not associate with a simple babbler.

Leviticus 19:16 ESV / 187 helpful votes

You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand up against the life of your neighbor: I am the Lord.

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 184 helpful votes

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Proverbs 26:20 ESV / 184 helpful votes

For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases.

Proverbs 11:13 ESV / 171 helpful votes

Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets, but he who is trustworthy in spirit keeps a thing covered.

Proverbs 18:8 ESV / 143 helpful votes

The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.

2 Corinthians 12:20 ESV / 141 helpful votes

For I fear that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish—that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.

1 Timothy 5:13 ESV / 129 helpful votes

Besides that, they learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not.

Romans 1:29 ESV / 127 helpful votes

They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,

James 1:26 ESV / 114 helpful votes

If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless.

Proverbs 10:18 ESV / 113 helpful votes

The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever utters slander is a fool.

Exodus 23:1 ESV / 102 helpful votes

“You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.

Proverbs 17:4 ESV / 101 helpful votes

An evildoer listens to wicked lips, and a liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.

James 4:11 ESV / 100 helpful votes

Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

Proverbs 26:22 ESV / 100 helpful votes

The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.

Psalm 34:13 ESV / 88 helpful votes

Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.

Proverbs 21:23 ESV / 87 helpful votes

Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble.

Proverbs 17:9 ESV / 87 helpful votes

Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.

Proverbs 6:16-19 ESV / 87 helpful votes

There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.

Psalm 101:5 ESV / 87 helpful votes

Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly I will destroy. Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart I will not endure.

Proverbs 11:9 ESV / 85 helpful votes

With his mouth the godless man would destroy his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered.

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 73 helpful votes

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Titus 3:2 ESV / 72 helpful votes

To speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people.

Matthew 12:36 ESV / 72 helpful votes

I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak,

Proverbs 26:20-22 ESV / 72 helpful votes

For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases. As charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife. The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.

Proverbs 18:21 ESV / 72 helpful votes

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

Exodus 20:16 ESV / 72 helpful votes

“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Proverbs 19:5 ESV / 59 helpful votes

A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will not escape.

1 Thessalonians 4:11 ESV / 58 helpful votes

And to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you,

Colossians 4:6 ESV / 58 helpful votes

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.

Proverbs 10:19 ESV / 58 helpful votes

When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent.

Psalm 19:14 ESV / 58 helpful votes

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.

Proverbs 12:22 ESV / 57 helpful votes

Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are his delight.

Leviticus 19:11 ESV / 57 helpful votes

“You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; you shall not lie to one another.

Ephesians 4:25 ESV / 56 helpful votes

Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

1 Peter 2:1 ESV / 45 helpful votes

So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.

James 3:5 ESV / 45 helpful votes

So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire!

2 Timothy 2:16 ESV / 45 helpful votes

But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness,

Proverbs 25:23 ESV / 45 helpful votes

The north wind brings forth rain, and a backbiting tongue, angry looks.

Proverbs 14:5 ESV / 45 helpful votes

A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies.

Proverbs 13:3 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

James 3:8 ESV / 44 helpful votes

But no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

1 Timothy 4:2 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared,

Colossians 3:9 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices

Colossians 3:8 ESV / 44 helpful votes

But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.

Ephesians 4:31 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.

John 8:44 ESV / 44 helpful votes

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Matthew 18:17 ESV / 44 helpful votes

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

Matthew 18:1-35 ESV / 44 helpful votes

At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, ...

Jeremiah 6:28 ESV / 44 helpful votes

They are all stubbornly rebellious, going about with slanders; they are bronze and iron; all of them act corruptly.

Proverbs 29:12 ESV / 44 helpful votes

If a ruler listens to falsehood, all his officials will be wicked.

Proverbs 26:28 ESV / 44 helpful votes

A lying tongue hates its victims, and a flattering mouth works ruin.

Psalm 141:3 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips!

Psalm 119:163 ESV / 44 helpful votes

I hate and abhor falsehood, but I love your law.

Psalm 31:18 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Let the lying lips be mute, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.

Proverbs 6:19 ESV / 43 helpful votes

A false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.

Psalm 101:7 ESV / 43 helpful votes

No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no one who utters lies shall continue before my eyes.

1 Peter 4:15 ESV / 32 helpful votes

But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler.

1 Timothy 5:13-14 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Besides that, they learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not. So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.

Ephesians 4:15-16 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

Romans 16:17-18 ESV / 31 helpful votes

I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them. For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.

Romans 1:28-32 ESV / 31 helpful votes

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.

Revelation 21:27 ESV / 30 helpful votes

But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 30 helpful votes

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Revelation 2:2 ESV / 30 helpful votes

“‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 30 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

1 Peter 3:16 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.

James 3:6 ESV / 30 helpful votes

And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.

James 3:2 ESV / 30 helpful votes

For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.

Hebrews 6:18 ESV / 30 helpful votes

So that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.

Titus 2:2-3 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good,

1 Timothy 5:19 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Do not admit a charge against an elder except on the evidence of two or three witnesses.

1 Timothy 3:9-11 ESV / 30 helpful votes

They must hold the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience. And let them also be tested first; then let them serve as deacons if they prove themselves blameless. Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded, faithful in all things.

Ephesians 5:11 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.

1 Corinthians 13:7 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1 Corinthians 13:6 ESV / 30 helpful votes

It does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 30 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

Romans 8:6 ESV / 30 helpful votes

For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.

Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 30 helpful votes

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. ...

Romans 1:32 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.

Romans 1:29-32 ESV / 30 helpful votes

They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.

Romans 1:29-30 ESV / 30 helpful votes

They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 30 helpful votes

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

John 8:4-10 ESV / 30 helpful votes

They said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. Now in the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?” This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.” And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground. ...

Luke 18:27 ESV / 30 helpful votes

But he said, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.”

Luke 6:31 ESV / 30 helpful votes

And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.

Matthew 18:16 ESV / 30 helpful votes

But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses.

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 30 helpful votes

“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Matthew 7:1 ESV / 30 helpful votes

“Judge not, that you be not judged.

Matthew 5:11 ESV / 30 helpful votes

“Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.

Zephaniah 3:13 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Those who are left in Israel; they shall do no injustice and speak no lies, nor shall there be found in their mouth a deceitful tongue. For they shall graze and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.”

Nahum 3:1 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Woe to the bloody city, all full of lies and plunder— no end to the prey!

Hosea 10:13 ESV / 30 helpful votes

You have plowed iniquity; you have reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your warriors,

Jeremiah 9:4 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Let everyone beware of his neighbor, and put no trust in any brother, for every brother is a deceiver, and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.

Jeremiah 9:1-11 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! Oh that I had in the desert a travelers' lodging place, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, a company of treacherous men. They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, declares the Lord. Let everyone beware of his neighbor, and put no trust in any brother, for every brother is a deceiver, and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer. Everyone deceives his neighbor, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves committing iniquity. ...

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 30 helpful votes

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ...

Proverbs 30:8 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me,

John 3:16-17 ESV / 28 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

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