A troublemaker plants seeds of strife; gossip separates the best of friends.

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

Leviticus 19:16 (NLT)
“Do not spread slanderous gossip among your people. “Do not stand idly by when your neighbor’s life is threatened. I am the Lord.

Proverbs 16:28 (NLT)
A troublemaker plants seeds of strife; gossip separates the best of friends.

Proverbs 25:23 (NLT)
As surely as a north wind brings rain, so a gossiping tongue causes anger!

Ecclesiastes 7:21-22 (NLT)
Don’t eavesdrop on others—you may hear your servant curse you. 22. For you know how often you yourself have cursed others.

Isaiah 32:6 (NLT)
For fools speak foolishness and make evil plans. They practice ungodliness and spread false teachings about the Lord . They deprive the hungry of food and give no water to the thirsty.

Matthew 12:34-37 (NLT)
You brood of snakes! How could evil men like you speak what is good and right? For whatever is in your heart determines what you say. 35. A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart, and an evil person produces evil things from the treasury of an evil heart. 36. And I tell you this, you must give an account on judgment day for every idle word you speak. 37. The words you say will either acquit you or condemn you.”

Matthew 15:11 (NLT)
It’s not what goes into your mouth that defiles you; you are defiled by the words that come out of your mouth.”

Romans 1:28-31 (NLT)
Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done. 29. Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, quarreling, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip. 30. They are backstabbers, haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful. They invent new ways of sinning, and they disobey their parents. 31. They refuse to understand, break their promises, are heartless, and have no mercy.

2 Corinthians 12:20 (NLT)
For I am afraid that when I come I won’t like what I find, and you won’t like my response. I am afraid that I will find quarreling, jealousy, anger, selfishness, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorderly behavior.

Ephesians 4:29 (NLT)
Don’t use foul or abusive language. Let everything you say be good and helpful, so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them.

Colossians 3:8 (NLT)
But now is the time to get rid of anger, rage, malicious behavior, slander, and dirty language.

Colossians 4:6 (NLT)
Let your conversation be gracious and attractive so that you will have the right response for everyone.

James 3:10 (NLT)
And so blessing and cursing come pouring out of the same mouth. Surely, my brothers and sisters, this is not right!

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