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To backbite is to attack the character or reputation of a person who is not present. It might be that what is said about the person is technically true; but to say it does not manifest love. And slander is an outright lie about a person, with the intent of making that other person look bad. God requ
Whether the evil report is true or false, I shall not be a party to spreading it abroad. In fact, the first concern in this connection is not whether the report is true or false. The evil report may very well be true, or at least partly true. There is, of course, a difference between slander and bac
The Heidelberg Catechism rightly calls lying the very work of the devil. That is a serious indictment and one that the child of God must avoid and abhor with all his heart. Backbiting and slander are also condemned. Backbiting is spreading an evil report about the neighbor that is true or partly tru
The tongue is the member used for gossip, backbiting, and slander which spread like wildfire. Always in the wake of these fires started by the tongue is desolation, immorality, corruption, damnation, and death. Does the above characterize the way we use our tongues? Do we say things about our peers
righteous, and the righteous according to the work of the wicked; forgery, concealing the truth, undue silence in a just cause, and holding our peace when iniquity calls for either a reproof from ourselves, or complaint to others; speaking the truth unseasonably or maliciously to a wrong end, or pe
A backbiter may very well be speaking the truth about his neighbor, but once again, he is doing so with the intent of smearing the name of his neighbor. He does not speak that truth in love for the neighbor. Quite often we are motivated to backbite against a neighbor in the hopes that by lowering hi