a sin
As
Christians we are not to enter into worldly chatter or gossip, it’s destructive
and sinful.
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Dictionary - Chatter
to talk idly, incessantly, blabber.
Dictionary - Gossip
a person who habitually reveals personal or sensational
facts about others.
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2
Timothy 2;14-19
14 Remind
them of these things, and solemnly charge them in the presence of God not to
wrangle about words, which is useless and leads to the ruin of the hearers.
15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does
not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth. 16 But avoid
worldly and empty chatter, for it will lead to further
ungodliness, 17 and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among
them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, 18 men who have gone astray from the
truth saying that the resurrection has already taken place, and they upset the
faith of some. 19 Nevertheless, the firm foundation of God stands, having
this seal, “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Everyone who names the
name of the Lord is to abstain from wickedness.”
1
Timothy 6;20-21
20 O
Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you, avoiding worldly and empty
chatter and the opposing arguments of what is falsely called
“knowledge”— 21 which some have professed and thus gone astray from the
faith.
2
Timothy 3;1-5
“Difficult
Times Will Come”
1
But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2 For
men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers,
disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious
gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers
of God, 5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its
power; Avoid such men as these.
Proverbs
16;28
A
perverse man spreads strife, And a slanderer separates intimate
friends.
Proverbs
20;19
He
who goes about as a slanderer reveals secrets, Therefore do not associate with
a gossip.
2
Corinthians 12;20
For
I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you to be not what I wish and
may be found by you to be not what you wish; that perhaps there will be strife,
jealousy, angry tempers, disputes, slanders, gossip, arrogance,
disturbances.
Romans 1;28-32
28 And
just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over
to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, 29 being
filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder,
strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, 30 slanderers,
haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to
parents, 31 without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful;
32 and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice
such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give
hearty approval to those who practice them.
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