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LEV 19:16  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.
 
PSA 34:13  Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
 
PSA 101:5  Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that
hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
 
PRO 6:19  A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among
brethren.
 
PRO 10:18  He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a
slander, is a fool.
 
PRO 11:9  An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through
knowledge shall the just be delivered.
 
PRO 11:13  A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit
concealeth the matter.
 
PRO 16:28  A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief
friends.
 
PRO 17:9  He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a
matter separateth very friends.
 
PRO 18:8  The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the
innermost parts of the belly.
 
PRO 20:19  He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore
meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
 
PRO 26:20  Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no
talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
 
ECC 10:11  Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no
better.
 
MAT 12:36  But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they
shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
 
EPH 4:29  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.
 
EPH 4:31  Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil
speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
 
2TH 3:11  For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly,
working not at all, but are busybodies.
 
1TI 3:11  Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in
all things.
 
1TI 5:13  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.
 
TIT 2:3  The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh
holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
 
TIT 3:1  Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey
magistrates, to be ready to every good work,
 
TIT 3:2  To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all
meekness unto all men.
 
JAM 4:11  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.
 
1PE 2:1  Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and
envies, all evil speakings,
 
1PE 3:10  For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his
tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile.
 
 
 
 
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