It’s not easy to look at this unpleasant reality of dealing with gossip, backbiting and jealousy. Certainly many work environments are filled with those things, and we need guidance on how to deal with this. But before we can deal with it in others, we must clean any trace of it out of our own lives.
In Romans 1:29-31 we see that malice, gossip and slander are listed with murder and haters of God. We need to remind ourselves of how God views these sins. They’re not just personality defects or bad habits. They are deadly, awful, despicable sins. The Bible couldn’t be clearer on this point.
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