Proverbs 11:13 King James Version

¹³ A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.

A talebearer in the Bible was someone who spread gossip or rumors. Has someone ever told you a secret? Has anyone ever spread gossip about you to others?

Gossip can hurt people and damage their reputations. Here is what the Bible tells us about being a talebearer.

• Proverbs 16:28A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
• Romans 16:17-18Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair …
• James 4:11-12Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. There is one lawgiver, who …
• Proverbs 25:23The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
• Psalms 15:1-3Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart. He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh …
• Matthew 12:37For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
• James 1:26If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
• Matthew 7:1-5Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that …
• Proverbs 11:13A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.
• 2 Corinthians 12:20For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

• Leviticus 19:16Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.

I remember growing up if we back talked our Mother she would look at us and say “You better watch your mouth.” As adults we can get in trouble for what comes out of our mouth also. Someone cuts us off in traffic, someone makes us mad, someone smarts off to us first. The Bible tells us we have to guard our mouth.

Proverbs 21:23 – Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.

Ephesians 4:29 – Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

Proverbs 15:1 – A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

James 3:2– For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.

Proverbs 12:18 – There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

Psalms 141:3 – Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

Psalms 34:13 – Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

James 1:26 – If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.

Proverbs 17:28 – Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

1 Peter 3:10 – For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:

Proverbs 18:21 – Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Proverbs 15:4 – A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

Matthew 12:33– Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.

James 3:10 – Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

Matthew 15:11 – Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

Titus 3:2 – To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.

Proverbs 10:19 – In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.

Psalms 52:2 – Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

We are to be soldiers in the army of God’s. Paul tell us in,
2 Timothy 2:3 – Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
2 Timothy 2:4 – No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

We are to endure hardships that come our way in life and to please our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. God’s word tells us how to fight against those spiritual battles.

Ephesians 6:11-17 King James Version

¹¹ Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

¹² For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

¹³ Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

¹⁴ Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

¹⁵ And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

¹⁶ Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

¹⁷ And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

Some people when they become rich they want more and more.

1 Timothy 6:7 King James Version

⁷ For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.

We have to be careful to not be greedy it is after all material things.

• He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.Ecclesiastes 5:10
• But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.1 Timothy 6:9

• For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.1 Timothy 6:10
• For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?Mark 8:36

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.Matthew 6:19-20

• Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.Proverbs 13:11
• He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not.Proverbs 21:26

• As he came forth of his mother’s womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.Ecclesiastes 5:15
• Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.Proverbs 23:4

• Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.Psalm 119:36
• No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.Matthew 6:24

I was raised to respect my parents and elders. To say “Yes Sir” and “Yes Ma’am”. I carried that with me through out life and when my Parents grew older and were home bound I took care of them. It breaks my heart to see so many young people disobeying their parents, grandparents or the elderly in general. It makes me mad to see on the news where someone has shoved an elderly person down, beaten them up or worse killed them. As I studied 1 Timothy this morning and this verse,

1 Timothy 5:1-2 King James Version

5 Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;

² The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.

It stood out to me in respecting those that are older.

2 Kings 2:23-24 King James Version

²³ And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.

²⁴ And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.

The Bible tells us how we are to honor our elderly.

Proverbs 19:20 – Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

Hebrews 13:17 – Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

1 Peter 5:5 – Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

Ephesians 6:1 – Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

Leviticus 19:32 – Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.

Colossians 3:20 – Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

Exodus 20:12 – Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.


Proverbs 1:8 – My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Proverbs 30:17 – The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

Exodus 21:17 – And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

Ephesians 6:4 – And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Proverbs 22:6 – Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Deuteronomy 21:18 – If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

Hebrews 13:17 – Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

Proverbs 13:24 – He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

Deuteronomy 5:16 – Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Leviticus 19:3 – Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.

Proverbs 29:15 – The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

Job 1:1-22 we have Job who was blameless and righteous before God. Job was rich and had ten children, seven sons and three daughters. God allowed Satan to put Job through a test except not to take Job’s life. So Job lost everything his livestock, then all of his children were killed and then Job developed a horrible and painful skin condition. But in all this he never cursed or blamed God.

Here is the positive that Job’s friends did in the beginning.

Job 2:11-13 King James Version

¹¹ Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

¹² And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

¹³ So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great

Sometimes we may not know the words to comfort someone who is going through a death, health issues or whatever pain in their lives we can just be there to comfort them. Job’s friends heard about what happened to him they immediately came to see him, they wept and just sat with him.

But soon it goes down hill from here they want to each give long speeches to Job accusing him of sinning that caused all of his loss. Job gets mad at them and God even is mad at his friends. But later Job prays for his friends and God gave back to Job twice as much as he had before.

Job 16:2

“I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.”

King James Version (KJV)

But God used all his sufferings for a test. We can use this as a lesson to be a friend that doesn’t point fingers or blame the person that has lost something but give them encouragement, comfort and love as Jesus would do.

Job 19:19

All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me. 

Job 19:21

Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me. 

Job 32:3

Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and [yet] had condemned Job.

Job 42:7

And it was [so], that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me [the thing that is] right, as my servant Job [hath]. 

Job 42:10

And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

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I used to have separation anxiety as a child and it followed me at times as an adult. I remember in elementary school being so shy and introverted I sat alone at lunch many times. I got lost as a child in a store and a lady found me crying and found my Mother. I went with my cousins and an Aunt to eat when I was a teenager and my Aunt played a joke on my cousin and I and left us for like thirty minutes! I was in such panic by the time she came back. We can know with Jesus we are never alone. When my Mother who was in the hospital alone but was going to be discharged that day suddenly died all alone with none of us around because of the Covid regulations at the time it hurt me so bad that we weren’t able to be with her! But then I remembered she wasn’t alone she had Jesus to welcome her to her heavenly home!

Hebrews 13:5 – Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

Psalms 23:4 – Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

Psalms 23:4 – Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

Deuteronomy 31:6

Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he [it is] that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Joshua 1:5

There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, [so] I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Joshua 1:5

There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, [so] I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Revelation 3:20 – Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

John 14:16-17 – And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

Romans 8:38-39 King James Version

³⁸ For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

³⁹ Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Have you ever been told to do something but you really didn’t want to do it so you went away grumbling and murmuring about it? I have been so guilty of this at times in my life.

Philippians 2:14 King James Version

¹⁴ Do all things without murmurings and disputings

Philippians 2:15-16 King James Version

¹⁵ That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;

¹⁶ Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

We need to be a light in this world and when we feel that need to murmur or dispute we need to turn to God’s word and remember what Christ did for us.

James 5:9 – Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.

Exodus 16:3 – And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

Jude 1:16 – These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.

Exodus 15:24 – And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?

1 Corinthians 10:10 – Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.

Exodus 16:12 – I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God

“O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.”
Psalms 69:5, KJV

Have you ever played hide and seek as a child? Growing up we would play it at night time. While one closed their eyes and counted we would run and hide. On one particular night as I ran I didn’t see a deep hole in the ground and my foot went in it and I fell down in pain. I of course was found first from hollering in pain. We try to hide from God sometimes but he knows everything even the things that you try to cover up.

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“. . . behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.”
Numbers 32:23b, KJV

“For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.”
Job 34:21, KJV

“For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.”
Psalms 51:3, KJV

“Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.”
Psalms 90:8, KJV

“The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.”
Proverbs 15:3, KJV

“Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.”
Jeremiah 23:24, KJV

“He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.”
Daniel 2:22, KJV

“. . . Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick? For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad.”
Mark 4:21b-22, KJV

“For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.”
Luke 12:2, KJV

“If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.”
John 15:22, KJV

“Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.”
Hebrews 4:13, KJV

It is amazing that no matter what we are facing in life, no matter what hardships Jesus is there right with us. He will never leave us even at times when we may have left him. He loves us so much.

I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.John 14:18

• The Lord is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.2 Chronicles 15:2
• Seek the Lord and his strength, seek his face continually.1 Chronicles 16:11
• The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth,and delivereth them out of all their troubles. The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.Psalm 34:17-18
• Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.Philippians 4:5
• Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all.2 Thessalonians 3:16
• One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life,to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in his temple.Psalm 27:4
• Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.Psalm 16:11
• But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.Ephesians 2:13
• Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.1 John 4:13
• Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.Psalm 23:6
• Seek the Lord, and his strength: seek his face evermore.Psalm 105:4
• Seek ye the Lord while he may be found,call ye upon him while he is near.Isaiah 55:6

• Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.2 Corinthians 13:11
• For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.Psalm 84:10
• The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us.1 Kings 8:57
• No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.John 1:18
• Nevertheless for thy great mercies’ sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.Nehemiah 9:31
• And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.Luke 10:9
• And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.Exodus 34:28
• He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.John 6:56