3.19-What's wrong with a little gossip and slander?

3.19-

"The Insult"

 

A lady with one of her ears applied

To an open key hole heard inside

Two female gossips in converse free

The subject enraging them was she.

"I think," said one, "and my husband thinks,

That she's a prying, spying, eavesdropping minx!"

As soon as no more of it she could bear,

The lady, indignant, removed her ear.

"I will not stay," she said

with a pout,

"To hear my character lied about!"

Tim Woodward,

Pine Valley Church, Bayfield Colorado

Mark 7.

¹⁴ After He called the crowd to Him again, He began saying to them, “Listen to Me, all of you, and understand: ¹⁵ there is nothing outside the man which can defile him if it goes into him; but the things which proceed out of the man are what defile the man. ¹⁶ [^[f]If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.”]
¹⁷ When he had left the crowd and entered the house, His disciples questioned Him about the parable. ¹⁸ And He *said to them, “Are you so lacking in understanding also? Do you not understand that whatever goes into the man from outside cannot defile him, ¹⁹ because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and ^[g]is eliminated?” (Thus He declared all foods clean.) ²⁰ And He was saying, “That which proceeds out of the man, that is what defiles the man. ²¹ For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the evil thoughts, ^[h]fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, ²² deeds of coveting and wickedness, as well as deceit, sensuality, ^[i]envy, slander, ^[j]pride and foolishness. ²³ All these evil things proceed from within and defile the man.”