Andy-baby:
People misinterprete gossip for backbitting. Gossip is done with the intention to spit or laugh at the person being gossiped while when you backbite you are hurt and you let someone know how badly you were hurt by another person. Hypocrisy is pretending to be who you are not. An unbeliever can disguise as a christian or pastor putting on a false impression to deceive.

Both gossip and hypocrisy aren't good habits to emulate. Gossip isn't good at all

efosanice: hypocrisy for nigerians, it is our watchword, Nigeria only has the highest number of churches and mosques in a single country and it also ranks among the top 20 corrupt countries

dederocs:
but dont u feign Godliness in church?...hypocrisy is now acceptable as part of our culture-crazy religious dogma.

J12: Is gossip a sin?

Koolking:

You can't feign godliness. Godliness is shown in words and actions

dederocs:
Hpocrisy is the worse...hypocrites re snakes.

Drdaps: Gossip all way
even in the Bible, Esau and Jacob their mother also gossip naw.

Koolking:

You can't feign godliness. Godliness is shown in words and actions

dederocs:
these days people feign it to please people...its rampant,its called hypocrisy.

dederocs:
Hpocrisy is the worse...hypocrites re snakes.

Lakayana: Gossip na sin because the thing sweet to do oh.

dederocs:
must we continue in the acts,why do we listen to our preachers,is it not for us to live by higher standards?
most people dat ave such tendencies are empty in the mind.

Koolking:

Nope, we mustn't. Here is the thing, envy is not an uncommon spirit in man. As long as we allow ourselves to be led by envy (sin), gossips and hypocrisy will continue to dwell with us. Our understanding of Christ will free us from these sins.
Romans 7:14-25 but I am of the flesh, sold into slavery under sin. I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is good. But in fact it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells within me. For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot do it. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do. Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells within me.

So I find it to be a law that when I want to do what is good, evil lies close at hand. For I delight in the law of God in my inmost self, but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind, making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I am a slave to the law of God, but with my flesh I am a slave to the law of sin.

Andy-baby:
People misinterprete gossip for backbitting. Gossip is done with the intention to spit or laugh at the person being gossiped while when you backbite you are hurt and you let someone know how badly you were hurt by another person. Hypocrisy is pretending to be who you are not. An unbeliever can disguise as a christian or pastor putting on a false impression to deceive.

Both gossip and hypocrisy aren't good habits to emulate.
Hypocrisy is the most dangerous. It can make someone marry a mistakened saint who is actually a devil incarnate. Some people have dated people who pretend to be christians but are actually atheists or core unbelievers who smoke cigrattes, get drunk, prostitute, go clubbing, living promiscuous and immoral lives, members of dangerous occultic groups, armed robbers, ritualists who will want to use their partners for sacrifices, wife beaters and husband beaters, lesbians and gays

Gossip is the hardest sin to avoid. People are always talking about what some did with the intention to mock them.

dederocs:
Who gave u the impression that every one in the bible is righteous...was Goliath righteous?...was judas righteous?
pls try to sound intelligent next time lil boy.

Drdaps:
At least try to use your sense of understanding before you post anything.
did Goliath gossip or judas did?
Now if Rebekah,the mother to both Esau and Jacob did not gossip,you won't hear anything like Israel.coz Jacob will not be able to take the blessing and Esau won't held any grudge against him.So Jacob has no cause to flee to laban.
Mean no HARM i remain loyal to my name
DrDaps.