Jeremiah 9:4

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.

But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.

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

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good,

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

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

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!

Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.

Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

When his speech is charming, don’t believe him, for there are seven abominations in his heart.

For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

Therefore behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

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

God said to him, “Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel.” He named him Israel.

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.”

Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom Yahweh’s word came, saying, “Israel shall be your name.”

To this day they do what they did before. They don’t fear Yahweh, and they do not follow the statutes, or the ordinances, or the law, or the commandment which Yahweh commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;

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

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

My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

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

The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.

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

But now Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel, says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.

I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, nor your brides when they commit adultery; because the men consort with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; so the people without understanding will come to ruin.

For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.

It will happen that, when anyone still prophesies, then his father and his mother who bore him will tell him, ‘You must die, because you speak lies in Yahweh’s name;’ and his father and his mother who bore him will stab him when he prophesies.

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, don’t be anxious how or what you will answer, or what you will say;

I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.

Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

No, but you yourselves do wrong and defraud, and that against your brothers.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

“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.

without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,

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

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

“ ‘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.’ ”

Abraham became the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.

My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away;

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

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

I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.

One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.

He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.

A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.

I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they will fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

“But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart. They have revolted and gone.

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

She weeps bitterly in the night. Her tears are on her cheeks. Among all her lovers she has no one to comfort her. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her. They have become her enemies.

They will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; because they have abandoned giving to Yahweh.

A man’s foes will be those of his own household.

They agreed with him. Summoning the apostles, they beat them and commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

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

But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.

that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance:

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

Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.

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

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

For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, but his friendship is with the upright.

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

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

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

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.

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain.

Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and among his own relatives, and in his own house.”

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.

He has slandered your servant to my lord the king, but my lord the king is as an angel of God. Therefore do what is good in your eyes.

There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:

a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.

But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you.

“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death.

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

that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.

Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.