Rumors

“You shall not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness.

A gossip reveals a secret, but a trustworthy person keeps a confidence.

For lack of guidance, a nation falls, but with many counselors comes deliverance.

What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?

You crave what you do not have; you kill and covet, but are unable to obtain it. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask.

But reject foolish and ignorant speculation, for you know that it breeds quarreling.

Without wood, a fire goes out; without gossip, a conflict ceases.

Justice executed is a joy to the righteous, but a terror to the workers of iniquity.

In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the Prophets.