Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths

Synonyms for Bad Mouths: gossip, tattle, tittle-tattle, muckrake, skinder, talk, whisper, and circulate rumours

Leviticus 19:16 (NIV)
 ‘Do not go about spreading slander among your people. “ ‘Do not do anything that endangers your neighbor’s life. I am the Lord.

Proverbs 16:28 (NIV)
A perverse person stirs up conflict, and a gossip separates close friends.

Proverbs 25:23 (NIV)
Like a north wind that brings unexpected rain is a sly tongue—which provokes a horrified look.

Ecclesiastes 7:21-22 (NIV)
Do not pay attention to every word people say, or you may hear your servant cursing you— 22. for you know in your heart that many times you yourself have cursed others.

Isaiah 32:6 (NIV)
For fools speak folly, their hearts are bent on evil: They practice ungodliness and spread error concerning the Lord; the hungry they leave empty and from the thirsty they withhold water.

Matthew 12:34-36 (NIV)
You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. 35. A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him. 36. But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken.

Matthew 15:11 (NIV)
What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them, but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.”

Romans 1:28-31 (NIV)
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.

2 Corinthians 12:20 (NIV)
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.

Ephesians 4:29 (NIV)
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.

Colossians 3:8 (NIV)
But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.

Colossians 4:6 (NIV)
Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.

James 3:10 (NIV)
Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this should not be.

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