Verbal Combat

Someone says; "Do you know what they said about me".

And they say things like; "I would never say things about them" Or "did you hear what they said". Really all that is doing is pointing the finger.

But yet people will continue the gossip by using more gossip. As if to nullify anything that another person said. Almost like a "verbal combat". They continue the banter adding more fuel every time they hear something that someone said.

If we were to simply choose not to participate in it, it would lose its energy.

I see people who are so convinced about certain things that they express their disapproval of it so strongly that they end up doing just the opposite using their own gossip. The vary thing that has them riled, gossip.

Its not "what" that's being said. The "what is just the symptom of the bigger problem, "gossip".

They say; " I would never do this or say that", but yet they continue using gossip by saying these things in order to discount the other person. By doing so they make themselves guilty of it.

Give it up and don't give it energy.

James 3:5
Likewise the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark.

Ephesians 4:29
Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.

1 Timothy 3:11
In the same way, their wives are to be women worthy of respect, not malicious talkers but temperate and trustworthy in everything.

2 Timothy 2:14
Keep reminding them of these things. Warn them before God against quarreling about words; it is of no value, and only ruins those who listen.