You and all My beloved need to be careful about repeating things that they have heard. It is so easy to think that you have heard something correctly when you have not.
Repeating something negative about someone, even if it is true, is gossip. Solomon wrote this exhortation to his sons: "He who covers a transgression seeks love; but he who repeats a matter separates very friends (Proverbs 17:9).
You always heard your mother say to you and your siblings, "If you have nothing good to say, then do not say anything." Whenever you pass on a negative report about a person, then those who hear this report will see this person from a bad light. Remember the one who keeps his mouth keeps his soul from troubles.
PROVERBS 17:9, 21:23
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