Scandal
A breath can start it,
Blowing to a flame
A quick, hot fire
To ruin a name.
O lips, be careful,
O tongue, keep still!
There are many ways
To maim and kill.
Far more cruel
Than a gun for game
Is the breath of scandal
Blowing on a name.
Grace Noll Crowell
Gossip, talebearing, whispers, tattlers, and so
many other names it is given when we discuss others,
when they are not present. Searching the bible, what
does it have to say about these actions?
2 Thess. 3:11
For we hear that there are some which walk
among you disorderly, working not at all,
but are busybodies.
1 Timothy 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.
1 Peter 4:15
But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or
as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody
in other men's matters.
Proverbs 21:23
Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth
his soul from troubles.
