What Does the Bible Say About Gossip?
Bought + Beloved with Kirby Kelly
Bought + Beloved with Kirby Kelly
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🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
What even is gossip? Is it going too far with the facts? Is it speaking behind someone’s back? What does the Bible actually have to say about it, and how can we start speaking life and honoring people with our speech instead of slandering and tearing them down? That's what we are diving into in this week's episode!
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| 0:00.0 | Life Audio. What even is gossip? Is it talking behind someone's back? Is it just taking the truth a little too far? |
| 0:11.1 | We're going to talk about what the Bible has to say about it in this week's episode. |
| 0:18.5 | Hello, hello, hello, ladies and gents, and welcome to this week's episode of the Ba' and Beloved |
| 0:23.2 | podcast. As always, it's your girl, Kirby Kelly, back at it again. If this is your first time |
| 0:28.2 | listening, welcome. I'm so glad that you clicked on this episode, whether you were |
| 0:32.3 | Googling our topic or looking it up on Apple Podcast, or you were like, what is a good Christian |
| 0:36.9 | podcast for me to |
| 0:37.6 | listen to on YouTube? And this one popped up. I am so glad that you are here. Feel free to follow |
| 0:43.2 | and leave a review if you have been a loyal listener. That would be incredible. Let's other people |
| 0:48.5 | know that this is a theologically sound and safe place to have these discussions and grow and |
| 0:54.1 | become more Christ-like in everything that we're called to do. |
| 0:58.2 | And that's kind of what we're going to be talking about today, right? |
| 1:01.7 | In the sense of what it looks like to live an honorable life with our speech. |
| 1:07.6 | I want to talk about gossip today. The hot gossip, if you will. And the reason why is because I think |
| 1:16.3 | gossip in general has become a really hot topic of conversation in the Christian space. And I don't |
| 1:23.6 | know if that's just because of like the online world and culture we live in right now |
| 1:28.3 | where it's like anybody does anything and people have something to say about it, whether it's |
| 1:33.9 | in a TikTok video or whether it's just like in a DM or even just like the little side |
| 1:39.5 | conversations that we can have. I've noticed more and more that people are talking about the issue of gossip. |
| 1:47.9 | And I think especially as Christians, this is something that we need like a refresher or even just |
| 1:53.5 | like a definitive conversation around because I think that sometimes gossip can be like |
| 2:00.3 | this weird gray space where it's like, well, am I |
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