gossip and lies

²⁹Let no evil words proceed from your mouth, but only what is good, toward the edification of faith, so as to bestow grace upon those who listen.

¹⁶Six things there are that the Lord hates, and the seventh, his soul detests: ¹⁷haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, ¹⁸a heart that devises the most wicked thoughts, feet running swiftly unto evil, ¹⁹a deceitful witness bringing forth lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

²⁸A perverse man stirs up lawsuits. And one who is verbose divides leaders.

²³Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue guards his soul from anguish.

²⁶But if anyone considers himself to be religious, but he does not restrain his tongue, but instead seduces his own heart: such a one’s religion is vanity.

¹⁹Do not become involved with him who reveals mysteries, and who walks deceitfully, and who enlarges his lips.

³⁶But I say to you, that for every idle word which men will have spoken, they shall render an account in the day of judgment.

⁵The one who secretly detracted his neighbor, this one I pursued. The one with an arrogant eye and an insatiable heart, with that one I would not eat.

¹⁴Prohibit your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.

²to speak evil of no one, not to be litigious, but to be reserved, displaying all meekness toward all men.

⁸The words of the double-tongued seem simple. And they reach even to the interior of the gut. Fear casts down the lazy, but the souls of the effeminate shall go hungry.

²⁰When the wood fails, the fire will be extinguished. And when the gossiper is taken away, conflicts will be quelled.

¹³Whoever walks dishonestly reveals secrets. But whoever is of a faithful soul conceals what is confided by a friend.

⁴The evil obey an unjust tongue. And the false are submissive to lying lips.

¹¹Brothers, do not choose to slander one another. Whoever slanders his brother, or whoever judges his brother, slanders the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

¹⁶You shall not be a detractor, nor a whisperer, among the people. You shall not stand against the blood of your neighbor. I am the Lord.

¹³And being at the same time also idle, they learn to go from house to house, being not only idle, but also talkative and curious, speaking of things which do not concern them.

¹“You shall not accept a lying voice. Neither shall you join your hand so as to give false testimony on behalf of the impious.

²⁹having been completely filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness; full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, spite, gossiping;

¹⁸Lying lips conceal hatred; whoever brings forth contempt is unwise.