2 Samuel 19:27

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

Don’t trust in a neighbor. Don’t put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.

He said to him, “Which ones?” Jesus said, “ ‘You shall not murder.’ ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ ‘You shall not steal.’ ‘You shall not offer false testimony.’

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

Then your servant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.’ ”

Your servant Joab has done this thing to change the face of the matter. My lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.”

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.

arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

She spoke to him according to these words, saying, “The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me,

“ ‘You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people. “ ‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.

Achish answered David, “I know that you are good in my sight, as an angel of God. Notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, ‘He shall not go up with us to the battle.’

The king said, “Where is your master’s son?” Ziba said to the king, “Behold, he is staying in Jerusalem; for he said, ‘Today the house of Israel will restore me the kingdom of my father.’ ”

For you will save the afflicted people, but the arrogant eyes you will bring down.

Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about.

You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.

Yahweh, my heart isn’t arrogant, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.

A truthful witness will not lie, but a false witness pours out lies.

They are all grievous rebels, going around to slander. They are bronze and iron. All of them deal corruptly.

Soldiers also asked him, saying, “What about us? What must we do?” He said to them, “Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages.”

Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”

“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.

“ ‘You shall not steal. “ ‘You shall not lie. “ ‘You shall not deceive one another.

“ ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”

But it was you, a man like me, my companion, and my familiar friend.

He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.

Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.

A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.

The north wind produces rain; so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.

For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.

There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.

His delight will be in the fear of Yahweh. He will not judge by the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing of his ears;

For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you! Even they have cried aloud after you! Don’t believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.

For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,

Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me.”

Therefore I sent to you at once, and it was good of you to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God to hear all things that have been commanded you by God.”

From there the brothers, when they heard of us, came to meet us as far as The Market of Appius and The Three Taverns. When Paul saw them, he thanked God and took courage.

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

he who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;

Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.

I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.

“Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer.

That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.