{"id":37133,"date":"2022-09-13T13:25:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/what-is-the-definition-of-gossip-according-to-the-bible\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T13:25:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:25:37","slug":"what-is-the-definition-of-gossip-according-to-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/what-is-the-definition-of-gossip-according-to-the-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the definition of gossip according to the Bible?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Proverbs 20:19 & Proverbs 11:13(NIV), “A gossip betrays a confidence; so avoid anyone who talks too much…a trustworthy person keeps a secret.” Both scriptures define gossip as a betrayal of a confidence<\/strong>. When people spread secrets (whether true or false), they are engaging in gossip and are to be avoided. Whereas, a trustworthy person will keep the matter to himself. She will not tell others.<\/p>\n

Romans 1:29-32 (NIV) includes gossipers with the degenerate: “They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, under, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips<\/strong>, slanderers, God-haters, insolent…Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death<\/strong>, they …continue…but also approve of those who practice them<\/strong>.” This passage teaches how much God hates gossip. The practice of gossip is considered wicked, worthy of death.<\/p>\n

So if gossiping is forbidden, how should we behave? Jesus gives us the Golden Rule in Matthew 7:12 (NIV), “So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you<\/strong>, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.” We should always seek peace and love with our fellow man for this is pleasing to our Heavenly Father.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Proverbs 20:19 & Proverbs 11:13(NIV), “A gossip betrays a confidence; so avoid anyone who talks too much…a trustworthy person keeps a secret.” Both scriptures define gossip as a betrayal of a confidence. When people spread secrets (whether true or false), they are engaging in gossip and are to be avoided. Whereas, a trustworthy person will … Continue reading “What is the definition of gossip according to the Bible?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}