Gossip
- not go up and down as a talebearer: Lev. 19:16 .
- Keep thy tongue from evil: Ps. 34:13 .
- talebearer revealeth secrets: Prov. 11:13 . ( Prov. 20:19 . )
- words of a talebearer are as wounds: Prov. 18:8 .
- Whoso keepeth … his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles: Prov. 21:23 .
- where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth: Prov. 26:20 .
- every idle word … give account thereof: Matt. 12:36 .
- which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man: Matt. 15:11 .
- condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: Luke 6:37 .
- He that is without sin … let him first cast a stone: John 8:7 .
- no corrupt communication … but that which is good: Eph. 4:29 .
- tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not: 1 Tim. 5:13 .
- If any … bridleth not his tongue: James 1:26 .
- tongue can no man tame: James 3:8 .
- Speak not evil one of another: James 4:11 .
- refrain his tongue from evil: 1 Pet. 3:10 .
- did indulge themselves … in babblings: Alma 1:32 .
- go about spreading rumors and contentions: Hel. 16:22 .
- Thou shalt not speak evil of thy neighbor: D&C 42:27 .
- cease to find fault one with another: D&C 88:124 .
See also Ps. 31:20 ; Prov. 13:3 ; Prov. 15:2 ; Matt. 7:3 ; Luke 6:45 ; Luke 12:3 ; Mosiah 4:30 ; D&C 136:24
