One of the most successful shows on television today is SCANDAL......Think about it!! Most successful.
Have you ever been hurt, when you found out people you love and who claim to love you, have been talking about you, when you are not around. Sharing your supposed wrong doing ( and I say supposed because they almost never come to you to ask about it); your actions, even your motives for doing something. Thoughts
are made up by those in the presence of that conversation and you are judged by those things.
I have!!
And I know you have been to?
And I have also been guilty?
But realizing when I am on the receiving end of it, how I feel destroyed by knowing this, I have sought, and asked God to help me to not practice in theses
types of conversations. Speculations about someone's motives, actions or thoughts!! This one is hard, because our human nature does not want to examine ourselves, our faults; we want to murder another person because we believe that we are better, or we don't
do that, have not done that! My flaws are not so noticeable, but man what they do?
Here are some :Step to be sure you are not involved in gossip:
Do not associate yourself with one who is a known gossip
When someone starts to gossip — change the subject
If you are not part of the problem or part of the solution, stay out of it
If you have fallen into the bad habit of gossiping — ask God to change your heart
When you have been the victim of gossip — confront the parties that spread the rumor
Finally here are some bible verses that speaks about this:
Leviticus 19:16 You
shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not
stand up against the life of your neighbor: I am the LORD.
Proverbs 11:13 Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets, but he who is trustworthy in spirit keeps a thing covered.
Proverbs 20:19 Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets; therefore do not associate with a simple babbler.
Proverbs 26:20-22 For
lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer,
quarreling ceases. As charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire, so is a
quarrelsome man for kindling strife. The words of a whisperer are like
delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.
Jeremiah 6:28 They are all stubbornly rebellious, going about with slanders; they are bronze and iron; all of them act corruptly.
Jeremiah 9:4 Let
everyone beware of his neighbor, and put no trust in any brother, or
every brother is a deceiver, and every neighbor goes about as a
slanderer.
Deceit, Backbiting, Busybodies, Malicious Gossips & Whisperers
Psalms 41:7 All who hate me whisper together about me; they imagine the worst for me.
Proverbs 25:23 The north wind brings forth rain, and a backbiting tongue, angry looks.
Romans 1:28-32 And
since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a
debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They were filled with all
manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of
envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,
slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of
evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless,
heartless, ruthless. Though they know God’s righteous decree that those
who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give
approval to those who practice them.
2 Corinthians 12:20 For
I fear that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I wish, and that
you may find me not as you wish—that perhaps there may be quarreling,
jealousy, anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.
1 Timothy 3:9-11 Deacons
likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued, not addicted to much
wine, not greedy for dishonest gain. They must hold the mystery of the
faith with a clear conscience. And let them also be tested first; then
let them serve as deacons if they prove themselves blameless. Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded, faithful in all things.
1 Timothy 5:13-14 Besides
that, they learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not
only idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should
not. So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their
households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.
2 Timothy 3:1-5 But
understand this, that in the last days there will come times of
difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud,
arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy
heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not
loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of
pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.
Titus 2:2-3 Older
men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith,
in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent
in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach
what is good,
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