Proverbs 10:18

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

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

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

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,

Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

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!

“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips.”

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

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

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.’

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.

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

God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.”

Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

He recognized it, and said, “It is my son’s tunic. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.”

Saul was afraid of David, because Yahweh was with him, and had departed from Saul.

“Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was around his waist, and in his sandals that were on his feet.

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

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.

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

who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;

Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.

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.

“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;

but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

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.

If he shoved him out of hatred, or hurled something at him while lying in wait, so that he died,

However he refused to turn away. Therefore Abner with the back end of the spear struck him in the body, so that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place. As many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.

Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don’t make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!”

Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array, with all kinds of instruments of war: fifty thousand who could command and were not of double heart.

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.

They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.

whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but joy comes to the promoters of peace.

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

Their quiver is an open tomb. They are all mighty men.

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

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

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.”

On the next day, Pashhur released Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, “Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib.

As for both these kings, their hearts will be to do mischief, and they will speak lies at one table; but it won’t prosper, for the end will still be at the appointed time.

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.

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,

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

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

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

“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.

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 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.”

The Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.

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.

Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, ‘An evil animal has devoured him.’ We will see what will become of his dreams.”

she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, “Behold, he has brought a Hebrew in to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice.

“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.

Saul was even more afraid of David; and Saul was David’s enemy continually.

When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad; for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

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

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

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

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

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

Like silver dross on an earthen vessel are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart.

A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but he harbors evil in his heart.

The wounds of a friend are faithful, although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

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

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

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