Backbiting and other useful Definitions

 

I have been going through old notes and writings of mine. I came across this and thought to share it:

 Proverbs 17:27

"He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit."

Backbiting- Reviling another in secret; slander

A fruit of sin

Romans 1:28-30

"And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
[29] Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
[30] Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
[31] Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
[32] Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them."

Expressed by the mouth--

Psalm 50:19-20

 "Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
[20] Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
[21] These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
[22] Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
[23] Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God."

Proverbs 25:23

"The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue."

Merits punishment--

Psalm 101:5

"Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer."

Keeps from God--

Psalm 15:1-3

"LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?

[2] He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.

[3] He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour."

Reproach= [Strongs # 2778 Hebrew prime root: to pull off, i.e. by implication, to expose] To rebuke, censure, upbraid. (2) To cast reproach upon (one's life, character, repute, etc,.; to bring into discredit.

censure= to find fault with or condemn as wrong; hostile criticism

To be laid aside--

1. Peter 2:1-2

"Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
[2] As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:"

Unworthy of Christians--

2. Corinthians 12:20

"For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:"

Whisperer-- a gossiper [Strongs #5587 Greek- By implication a slander]

Separates chief friends--

Proverbs 16:28

"A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends."

Patience= The ability to bear trials without grumbling.

1.Peter 3:10

"For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:"

Guile= Deceitful, cunning; craft & treachery, a trick- to beguile

Guile in the following verse is described in Strongs as: Hebrew word #4820  mirmah 

 in the sense of deceiving; fraud: craft, false, feign and from #7411 prime root; to hurl, to shoot: figuratively to delude or betray (as if causing to fall):-beguile, betray

Psalm 34:13-14

"Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
[14] Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it."

The above notes are something I wrote many years ago, most likely before I was married. I highly recommend the unmarried to make the time to search the Scriptures and learn the ways of truth. Of course, it's important for the married to make the time as well. There is just such a great opportunity as an unmarried person to redeem the time and get this profitable knowledge in your heart to help direct your future. It's a good way to search our hearts as well as we learn more and more. When I studied these things out I did not use the internet at that time in my life, but I did use a concordance. The internet can have so many distractions, the old ways of reading a hard copy of the Bible and quiet time before the Lord I highly recommend.