Leviticus 19:16
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16 You shall not go around as a gossip among your people, and you are not to act against the life of your neighbor [with slander or false testimony]; I am the Lord.
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1 Timothy 3:11
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11 [a]Women must likewise be worthy of respect, not malicious gossips, but self-controlled, [thoroughly] trustworthy in all things.
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- 1 Timothy 3:11 In Greek, the same word is used for both woman and wife. This verse may refer specifically to either deacons’ wives or deaconesses, rather than the congregation in general.
1 Timothy 5:13
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13 Now at the same time, they also learn to be idle as they go from house to house; and not only idle, but also gossips and [a]busybodies [meddlers in things that do not concern them], talking about things they should not mention.
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- 1 Timothy 5:13 Paul levels the same criticism against the people in 2 Thess 3:10, 11.
Romans 1:29
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29 until they were filled (permeated, saturated) with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice and mean-spiritedness. They are gossips [spreading rumors],
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