Our Favorite Proverbs: Proverbs 16:8, A Common but Dangerous Sin
by Marilynn Chadwick
"A perverse person stirs up conflict, and a gossip separates close friends." Proverbs 16:8 NIV
The Bible mentions gossip and its related behaviors, such as slander, backbiting, and whispering, over 150 times. The sin of gossip is often mentioned alongside more seemingly serious sins, like theft or murder. "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, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their…
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