Gossip by Isaac Chee
What is gossip?
•“to sip”
•a person who habitually reveals personal or sensational facts about others
•rumour or report of an intimate nature
•a report (often malicious) about the behaviour of other people
Why do you gossip?
•you are ‘concerned’
•‘sharing is caring’
•you privately enjoy hearing about other people’s life
•it helps you to be more popular
•you just have nothing better to do in life
What is wrong with gossip?
•it may be true at first, but…eventually…
•it betrays confidence
•someone will get hurt
•a person who gossips to you, will gossip about you
•words are hard(if not impossible) to be reversed
Additional verses
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
Matthew 12:36
Telling lies about other is as harmful as hitting them with an axe,
wounding them with a sword, or shooting them with a sharp arrow.
Proverbs 25:18
A gossip betrays a confidence, but a trustworthy man keeps a secret.
Proverbs 11:13
Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.
Ephesians 4:29
Without wood a fire goes out; without gossip a quarrel dies down.
Proverbs 26:20
So, what do I do about gossip?
•walk away
•think of the consequences
•scold the fella spreading it!
•ask you mommy and daddy if you should do it…
do not gossip
it is as plain as that.
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