See also Backbiting; False; Lying; Slander

Lev. 19: 16	not go up and down as a talebearer.
Ps. 34: 13	Keep thy tongue from evil.
Prov. 11: 13	(Prov. 20: 19) talebearer revealeth secrets.
Prov. 18: 8	words of a talebearer are as wounds.
Prov. 21: 23	Whoso keepeth . . . his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
Prov. 26: 20	where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
Matt. 12: 36	every idle word . . . give account thereof.
Matt. 15: 11	which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
Luke 6: 37	condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned.
John 8: 7	He that is without sin . . . let him first cast a stone.
Eph. 4: 29	no corrupt communication . . . but that which is good.
1 Tim. 5: 13	tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
James 1: 26	If any . . . bridleth not his tongue.
James 3: 8	tongue can no man tame.
James 4: 11	Speak not evil one of another.
1 Pet. 3: 10	refrain his tongue from evil.
Alma 1: 32	did indulge themselves . . . in babblings.
Hel. 16: 22	go about spreading rumors and contentions.
D&C 42: 27	Thou shalt not speak evil of thy neighbor.
D&C 88: 124	cease to find fault one with another.

See also Ps. 31: 20; Prov. 13: 3; Prov. 15: 2; Matt. 7: 3; Luke 6: 45; Luke 12: 3; Mosiah 4: 30; D&C 136: 24.