Proverbs 26:22

One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.

A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

“ ‘You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people. “ ‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.

Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.

I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, nor your brides when they commit adultery; because the men consort with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; so the people without understanding will come to ruin.

And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

They will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; because they have abandoned giving to Yahweh.

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.

He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

A man of violence entices his neighbor, and leads him in a way that is not good.

A man who isolates himself pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.

A man’s spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?

My son, fear Yahweh and the king. Don’t join those who are rebellious;

For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain.

“ ‘ “Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will bring your way on your head,” says the Lord Yahweh: “and you shall not commit this lewdness with all your abominations.

and has not eaten on the mountains, hasn’t lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hasn’t defiled his neighbor’s wife, hasn’t come near a woman in her impurity,

or who does not do any of those things, but even has eaten at the mountain shrines, and defiled his neighbor’s wife,

There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

This is to the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they sacrifice in the open field, that they may bring them to Yahweh, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to the priest, and sacrifice them for sacrifices of peace offerings to Yahweh.

accuses her of shameful things, gives her a bad name, and says, “I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn’t find in her the tokens of virginity;”

When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up this once, for he has told me all his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hand.

I took my concubine and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.

Then Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, answered and said, “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.

When Saul had returned from following the Philistines, he was told, “Behold, David is in the wilderness of En Gedi.”

David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to men’s words, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you?’

Now after the death of Jehoiada, the princes of Judah came, and bowed down to the king. Then the king listened to them.

He who denounces his friends for plunder, Even the eyes of his children will fail.

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.

You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.

I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.

They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent.

a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.

The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver. The heart of the wicked is of little worth.

The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.

Debate your case with your neighbor, and don’t betray the confidence of another,

The north wind produces rain; so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

They are all grievous rebels, going around to slander. They are bronze and iron. All of them deal corruptly.

“Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer.

“ ‘Make chains; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

who hasn’t eaten on the mountains, hasn’t lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hasn’t defiled his neighbor’s wife,

Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.

“ ‘ “In your filthiness is lewdness. Because I have cleansed you and you weren’t cleansed, you won’t be cleansed from your filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.

Therefore tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. So should you possess the land?

As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man, so the company of priests murder on the path toward Shechem, committing shameful crimes.

They are all adulterers. They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring, from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.

The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil things.

Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;

For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me.

being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.

In her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on the earth.”