Backbiting: People who do this lack the moral fortitude to speak to one’s face. Instead they whisper behind another’s back for fear that if they were confronted their claim would be proven false. These people are wounded and go from place to place finding something to create discord. When we hear it, we know inside it doesn’t feel right but we are connected to the person in some way and love them. Look what Paul has to say:
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” (2 Corinthians 12:20)
Paul warned against “backbitings” in the Church because it causes division and falling away if not repented of. The same Greek word, kat-al-al-os, that is used to describe the backbiting in the verse quote above is also used to refer to one of the bitter fruits of apostasy i.e. “as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind”:
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