Daily Focus: Gossip
February 4
Casual or unconstrained conversations or reports about other people, typically involving details that are not
confirmed as being true:
Gossip can be defined in many ways, but at its core, it is simply talking about someone behind their back. In the Bible, gossip is condemned as one of the worst sins that a person can commit.
Several verses in the Bible talk about gossip, and they all emphasize how serious God considers this sin to be.
• Sarcastic remarks
• Listening
• Repeating what someone has said about someone
• Embellishing information about someone after information about
Scriptural Evidence of These Sins Working in Our Lives
Proverbs 6:16-19
There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are
abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.
Romans 1:29
They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,
Scriptural Evidence of These Virtues Working in Our Lives
Ephesians 4:2-6
Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
1 Peter 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:
