1. Real friends keep secrets.

“A gossip tells everything, but a true friend will keep a secret” (Proverbs 11:13, Contemporary English Version throughout).

2. Gossip destroys friendships.

“Gossip is no good! It causes hard feelings and comes between friends” (Proverbs 16:28).

3. Don’t add fuel to the fire.

“Where there is no fuel a fire goes out; where there is no gossip arguments come to an end” (Proverbs 26:20).

For more about gossip, see “My Name Is Gossip.”

What biblical passages would you add?

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