Leviticus 19:16

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

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

“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!

without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

“ ‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you must not wholly reap into the corners of your field, and you must not gather the gleanings of your harvest. You must leave them for the poor, and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.’ ”

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

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.

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.’

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.

keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”

“ ‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.

for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?”

He said, “Why does my lord pursue his servant? For what have I done? What evil is in my hand?

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

A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

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

The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, they go down into the innermost parts.

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.

So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it.”

For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don’t work at all, but are busybodies.

Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,

For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men’s matters.

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,

“ ‘When you offer an offering of a meal offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.

‘Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

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

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

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

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

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

“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.

He went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace.

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.

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

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,

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

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

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

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

that they may train the young wives to love their husbands, to love their children,

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

A man who isolates himself pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.

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

“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.

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.”

I will surely require accounting for your life’s blood. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man.

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Let me now go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I find favor.” She said to her, “Go, my daughter.”

David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to men’s words, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you?’

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

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

saying, “I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”

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

Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

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

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,