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“ ‘Do not go about spreading slander among your people.
“ ‘Do not do anything that endangers your neighbor’s life. I am the Lord.
and slanders her and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity,”
Now he has slandered her and said, ‘I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.’ But here is the proof of my daughter’s virginity.” Then her parents shall display the cloth before the elders of the town,
And he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. My lord the king is like an angel of God; so do whatever pleases you.
and has no slander on his tongue,
who does his neighbor no wrong
and casts no slur on his fellowman,
For I hear the slander of many;
there is terror on every side;
they conspire against me
and plot to take my life.
But when I stumbled, they gathered in glee;
attackers gathered against me when I was unaware.
They slandered me without ceasing.
Those who repay my good with evil
slander me when I pursue what is good.
Whenever one comes to see me,
he speaks falsely, while his heart gathers slander;
then he goes out and spreads it abroad.
You speak continually against your brother
and slander your own mother’s son.
Let evil recoil on those who slander me;
in your faithfulness destroy them.
My slanderers pursue me all day long;
many are attacking me in their pride.
my loving God.
God will go before me
and will let me gloat over those who slander me.
Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret,
him will I put to silence;
whoever has haughty eyes and a proud heart,
him will I not endure.
Though rulers sit together and slander me,
your servant will meditate on your decrees.
Let slanderers not be established in the land;
may disaster hunt down men of violence.
He who conceals his hatred has lying lips,
and whoever spreads slander is a fool.
A gossip betrays a confidence,
but a trustworthy man keeps a secret.
A perverse man stirs up dissension,
and a gossip separates close friends.
The words of a gossip are like choice morsels;
they go down to a man’s inmost parts.
A gossip betrays a confidence;
so avoid a man who talks too much.
Without wood a fire goes out;
without gossip a quarrel dies down.
The words of a gossip are like choice morsels;
they go down to a man’s inmost parts.
“Do not slander a servant to his master,
or he will curse you, and you will pay for it.
They are all hardened rebels,
going about to slander.
They are bronze and iron;
they all act corruptly.
“Beware of your friends;
do not trust your brothers.
For every brother is a deceiver,
and every friend a slanderer.
In you are slanderous men bent on shedding blood; in you are those who eat at the mountain shrines and commit lewd acts.
Therefore prophesy and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because they ravaged and hounded you from every side so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations and the object of people’s malicious talk and slander,
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.
They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,
slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;
Why not say—as we are being slanderously reported as saying and as some claim that we say—“Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is deserved.
when we are slandered, we answer kindly. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world.
But now I am writing you that you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.
nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
For I am afraid that when I come I may not find you as I want you to be, and you may not find me as you want me to be. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder.
Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice.
But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.
Besides, they get into the habit of being idle and going about from house to house. And not only do they become idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things they ought not to.
So I counsel younger widows to marry, to have children, to manage their homes and to give the enemy no opportunity for slander.
All who are under the yoke of slavery should consider their masters worthy of full respect, so that God’s name and our teaching may not be slandered.
without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,
Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good.
to slander no one, to be peaceable and considerate, and to show true humility toward all men.
Are they not the ones who are slandering the noble name of him to whom you belong?
Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it.
Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind.
keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander.
This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority.
Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings;
yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
So if I come, I will call attention to what he is doing, gossiping maliciously about us. Not satisfied with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers. He also stops those who want to do so and puts them out of the church.
In the very same way, these dreamers pollute their own bodies, reject authority and slander celestial beings.
But even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring a slanderous accusation against him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”
I know your afflictions and your poverty—yet you are rich! I know the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
He opened his mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven.
