Talebearer

13 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.

General Scriptures Concerning

Leviticus 19:16 You must not go about spreading slander among your people. You must not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am the LORD.
Psalm 15:1–3 O LORD, who may abide in Your tent? Who may dwell on Your holy mountain? …
Proverbs 11:13 A gossip reveals a secret, but a trustworthy person keeps a confidence.
Proverbs 16:28 A perverse man spreads dissension, and a gossip divides close friends.
Proverbs 17:9 Whoever conceals an offense promotes love, but he who brings it up separates friends.
Proverbs 18:8 The words of a gossip are like choice morsels that go down into the inmost being.
Proverbs 20:19 He who reveals secrets is a constant gossip; avoid the one who babbles with his lips.
Proverbs 26:20–22 Without wood, a fire goes out; without gossip, a conflict ceases. …
1 Timothy 5:11 But refuse to enroll younger widows. For when their passions draw them away from Christ, they will want to marry,
1 Timothy 5:13 At the same time they will also learn to be idle, going from house to house and being not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, discussing things they should not mention.

2 Samuel 3:23 When Joab and all his troops arrived, he was informed, “Abner son of Ner came to see the king, who sent him on his way in peace.”

Genesis 37:2 This is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father a bad report about them.

Nehemiah 6:1 When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left— though to that time I had not yet installed the doors in the gates—