Bible Verses About Gossip and Lies

“A perverse man spreads dissension, and a gossip divides close friends.”

“He who guards his mouth and tongue keeps his soul from distress.”

“He who reveals secrets is a constant gossip; avoid the one who babbles with his lips.”

“Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.”

“Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from deceitful speech.”

“The words of a gossip are like choice morsels that go down into the inmost being.”

“A gossip reveals a secret, but a trustworthy person keeps a confidence.”

“A wicked man listens to evil lips; a liar gives ear to a destructive tongue.”

“Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it.”

“You shall not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness.”

“A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who utters lies will not escape.”

“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.”

“For I am afraid that when I come, I may not find you as I wish, and you may not find me as you wish. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, rage, rivalry, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.”

“Hide me from the scheming of the wicked, from the mob of workers of iniquity, who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows, ambushing the innocent in seclusion, shooting suddenly, without fear.”

“When words are many, sin is unavoidable, but he who restrains his lips is wise.”

“The words of a gossip are like choice morsels that go down into the inmost being.”

“With his mouth the ungodly man destroys his neighbor, but through knowledge the righteous are rescued.”

“Indeed, none of you should suffer as a murderer or thief or wrongdoer, or even as a meddler.”

“May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in Your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.”

“Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.”

“Lying lips are detestable to the LORD, but those who deal faithfully are His delight.”

“Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch at the door of my lips.”

“A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who pours out lies will perish.”

“As the north wind brings forth rain, so a backbiting tongue brings angry looks.”

“May lying lips be silenced — lips that speak with arrogance against the righteous, full of pride and contempt.”

“Without wood, a fire goes out; without gossip, a conflict ceases. Like charcoal for embers and wood for fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife. The words of a gossip are like choice morsels that go down into the inmost being.”

“He who guards his mouth protects his life, but the one who opens his lips invites his own ruin.”

“Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.”

“You unleash your mouth for evil and harness your tongue to deceit. You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son. You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face. Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you: He who sacrifices a thank offering honors Me, and to him who rightly orders his way, I will show the salvation of God.”

“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, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents. They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them.”

“In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things. Consider how small a spark sets a great forest ablaze.”

“Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does. Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous. For the LORD guards the path of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.”

“No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no one who tells lies shall stand in my presence.”

“An honest witness does not deceive, but a dishonest witness pours forth lies.”

“Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.”

“But now you must put aside all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.”

“Whoever shows contempt for his neighbor lacks judgment, but a man of understanding remains silent.”

“Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another.”

“Like one who grabs a dog by the ears is a passerby who meddles in a quarrel not his own.”

“A lying tongue hates those it crushes, and a flattering mouth causes ruin.”

“All are hardened rebels, walking around as slanderers. They are bronze and iron; all of them are corrupt.”

“Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.”

“The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.”

“Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.”

“Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread that is my portion.”

“If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, regard him as you would a pagan or a tax collector.”

“Do to others as you would have them do to you.”

“Do not entertain an accusation against an elder, except on the testimony of two or three witnesses.”

“The remnant of Israel will no longer do wrong or speak lies, nor will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouths. But they will feed and lie down, with no one to make them tremble.”

“Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people. If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people. “They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD. “Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander. Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out committing iniquity. You dwell in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to know Me,” declares the LORD. Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do because of the daughter of My people? Their tongues are deadly arrows; they speak deception. With his mouth a man speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he sets a trap for him. Should I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD. Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?” I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away. “And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”