Children are worshipers, and their lives are shaped and controlled by whatever they worship. That means that every moment is a God moment. In every moment, a child is accepting his role as a creature and living in worshipful obedience to God, or he is exchanging God for some aspect of the created world he is living to get. Children don’t typically think of themselves this way (nor do their parents!), so they need us to faithfully point out to them the covenantal nature of their actions. There is no more important piece of the Bible’s job description for parents.
Paul David Tripp

Gossip

Gossip

TOPICAL STUDY

GOSSIP

LEV 19:16 Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour; I am the LORD.

PSA 34:13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

PSA 101:5 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.

PRO 6:19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

PRO 10:18 He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.

PRO 11:9 An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.

PRO 11:13 A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.

PRO 16:28 A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.

PRO 17:9 He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

PRO 18:8 The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

PRO 20:19 He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.

PRO 26:20 Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.

ECC 10:11 Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.

MAT 12:36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

EPH 4:29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

EPH 4:31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

2TH 3:11 For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.

1TI 3:11 Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

1TI 5:13 And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

TIT 2:3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

TIT 3:1 Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,

TIT 3:2 To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.

JAM 4:11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

1PE 2:1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, all evil speakings,

1PE 3:10 For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile.

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