Avoid Gossip, Backbiting and Spreading Unfounded Rumors

President Tanner outlines key actions that will help us receive the companionship of the Holy Ghost and the power to resist worldly ideas and temptations.

Do we live peaceably with our neighbors and avoid gossip and backbiting and spreading unfounded rumors? Do we truly love our neighbors as ourselves?

“If we can answer yes to these questions, then we will have on the whole armor of God, which will protect us from harm and preserve us from our enemies. … (in Conference Report, Apr. 1979, p. 65; or Ensign, May 1979, p. 46).