Kevin Ababio | Rumor Has It |  | 01.30.2022. Gossip is bearing bad news behind someone's back out of a bad heart. Gossip is the opposite of the Gospel. Gossip arises when something has gone wrong with us at the worshiping core of our beings. Proverbs 26:20 teaches "For lack of wood, the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases."