Bible Verses About Gossipers
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for gossipers, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,194 votes, led by Psalms 101:5. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Gossipers
Psalms 101:5136 votes
Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
Proverbs 6:16-19107 votes
These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
Proverbs 16:28101 votes
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
Romans 1:2980 votes
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
1 Timothy 5:1375 votes
And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
James 4:1169 votes
Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
Proverbs 20:1959 votes
He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
Leviticus 19:1652 votes
Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the Lord.
Proverbs 11:1344 votes
A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.
James 3:838 votes
But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
1 John 2:1-2934 votes
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
Proverbs 26:2029 votes
Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
Proverbs 17:928 votes
He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
James 3:624 votes
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Proverbs 18:823 votes
The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
Proverbs 16:2722 votes
An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
Ephesians 4:2921 votes
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Romans 1:3018 votes
Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
James 1:2618 votes
If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
2 Corinthians 12:2017 votes
For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
James 1:1-2717 votes
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
Psalms 34:1316 votes
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Proverbs 10:1815 votes
He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
Proverbs 11:915 votes
An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.
2 Timothy 2:1615 votes
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
What does the Bible say about gossipers?
Readers most often cite Psalms 101:5 on the subject of gossipers. Across 1,194 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 6:16-19, Proverbs 16:28, Romans 1:29. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.