'Whoever spreads slander
Whoever spreads slander is a fool!
It is easy for one to poison a person's mind, concerning another's reputation. There is measureless ruin created in this world, by the slanderer.
Characters are blackened,
friendships are destroyed,
jealousies are aroused,
homes are torn up,
hearts are broken!
Let us never take up an evil report, and pass it onto others. Let us never whisper an evil word about another. We do not know . . .
where it may end,
how it may grow, or
what ruin it may work.
Words once spoken, can never be taken back again.
We'd better learn to keep the door of our lips locked and speak no evil of anyone.
"The Scripture calls slandering, smiting with the tongue .
"Come, and let us smite him with the tongue!" Jer. 18:18. You may smite another — and never touch him.
The tongue inflicts greater wounds than the sword. No physician can heal the wounds of the tongue! To pretend friendship to a man, and slander him, is most odious!" Thomas Watson
"As a rod scourges the back, so the slanderer's tongue scourges the name!" Thomas Watson
"The scorpion carries his poison in his tail; the slanderer carries his poison in his tongue!" Thomas Watson
"He who raises a slander — carries the devil in his tongue!
He who receives a slander — carries the devil in his ear!" Thomas Watson
"Do not go about spreading slander among your people." Leviticus 19:16
" Whoever spreads slander is a fool! " Proverbs 10:18
"Brothers, do not slander one another!" James 4:11