Words
Gossip
Gossip carries a story that is not ours to spread. The Bible treats careless words as something that can cut.
1. Job 26:14
“Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?””
2. Matthew 10:27
“What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.”
3. 2 Samuel 12:19
“But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David perceived that the child was dead; and David said to his servants, “Is the child dead?” They said, “He is dead.””
4. Proverbs 26:22
“The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, they go down into the innermost parts.”
5. Psalms 41:7
“All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.”
6. Job 4:12
““Now a thing was secretly brought to me. My ear received a whisper of it.”
7. Proverbs 16:28
“A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.”
8. Song of Solomon 4:11
“Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.”
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Practice Job 26:14
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Behold,thesearebuttheoutskirtsofhisHowadowehearofhim!Butthethunderofhispowerwhocanunderstand?”