Numbers 16:12

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

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.

The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.

Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

“You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

“ ‘You shall rise up before the gray head and honor the face of the elderly; and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

With him, I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see Yahweh’s form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?”

They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Yahweh is among them! Why do you lift yourselves up above Yahweh’s assembly?”

According to the decisions of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do. You shall not turn away from the sentence which they announce to you, to the right hand, nor to the left.

He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldy!”

Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.

“But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs.

On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction.

Who says to a king, ‘Vile!’ or to nobles, ‘Wicked!’?

A wise man fears and shuns evil, but the fool is hot headed and reckless.

A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings.

Delicate living is not appropriate for a fool, much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

Don’t answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.

If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, the fool rages or scoffs, and there is no peace.

There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn’t bless their mother.

“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.

Don’t curse the king, no, not in your thoughts; and don’t curse the rich in your bedroom: for a bird of the sky may carry your voice, and that which has wings may tell the matter.

Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the wicked against the honorable.

The elder and the honorable man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail.

The envy also of Ephraim will depart, and those who persecute Judah will be cut off. Ephraim won’t envy Judah, and Judah won’t persecute Ephraim.

But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”

In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord Yahweh.

A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.

Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”

Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”

For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land,” says Yahweh; “but, behold, I will deliver the men everyone into his neighbor’s hand, and into the hand of his king. They will strike the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.”

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

“Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

Then they spat in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,

All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.”

Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with fists, and to tell him, “Prophesy!” The officers struck him with the palms of their hands.

But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us.’

Having blindfolded him, they struck him on the face and asked him, “Prophesy! Who is the one who struck you?”

But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?

to whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,

Paul said, “I didn’t know, brothers, that he was high priest. For it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’ ”

If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.

doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

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

Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.

for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine,

Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.

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

But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.