To be able to make informed judgments one must ask questions respectfully with love in their hearts. Those who love their gossip will never ask questions of those gossiped about, they will just enjoy the negativity and assume what they wish to believe.
Gossipers are more interested in connecting with the other gossipers than they are in truth.
Here is what love looks like:
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 "4 Love is patient, love is kind, it is not jealous; love does not brag, it is not arrogant. 5 It does not act disgracefully, it does not seek its own benefit; it is not provoked, does not keep an account of a wrong suffered, 6 it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 it keeps every confidence, it believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."
Someone who is loving wants to get to the truth and does not delight in hearsay that ruins the reputation of others. Those who love do things to help not to harm.
Proverbs 10:12
"Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions."
Proverbs 17:9
"Whoever conceals an offense promotes love, but he who brings it up separates friends."
Only Christ can teach us to love others the way He loves us.
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