Psalm 41:7

New American Bible - revised edition

When someone comes to visit me, he speaks without sincerity. His heart stores up malice; when he leaves, he gossips.

Cross References

Proverbs 16:28

Perverse speech sows discord, and talebearing separates bosom friends.

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I fear that when I come I may find you not such as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish; that there may be rivalry, jealousy, fury, selfishness, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.

Romans 1:29

They are filled with every form of wickedness, evil, greed, and malice; full of envy, murder, rivalry, treachery, and spite. They are gossips

Matthew 22:15

Then the Pharisees went off and plotted how they might entrap him in speech.

Proverbs 26:20

Without wood the fire dies out; without a talebearer strife subsides.

Psalm 31:13

I am forgotten, out of mind like the dead; I am like a worn-out tool.