And if someone of them comes to see me, he speaks falsely. He stores up evil in his heart, then he goes out and chatters.
I am as forgotten as a dead man. I have become like a broken vessel.
A perverse person sows strife, and a gossip separates close friends.
Without wood a fire goes out; without gossip quarrels cease.
Then the Pharisees went and plotted how they might trap Him with a word.
They became filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice. They are gossips,
For I am afraid that perhaps when I come, I may find you not as I wish, or I may be found by you not as you wish—that there may be strife, envy, outbursts of anger, self-seeking disputes, lashon ha-ra , gossip, arrogance, unruly commotions.