Proverbs 11:13

“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.

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

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

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.’

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

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

Every prudent man acts from knowledge, but a fool exposes folly.

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

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

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

He who is truthful testifies honestly, but a false witness lies.

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.

A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.

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

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

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.

Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.

Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.”

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

and when Yahweh your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them.

The men said to her, “Our life for yours, if you don’t talk about this business of ours; and it shall be, when Yahweh gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you.”

A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth,

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

A prudent man keeps his knowledge, but the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.

He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

A man of violence entices his neighbor, and leads him in a way that is not good.

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

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

My son, fear Yahweh and the king. Don’t join those who are rebellious;

She looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn’t eat the bread of idleness.

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.

But if the princes hear that I have talked with you, and they come to you, and tell you, ‘Declare to us now what you have said to the king; don’t hide it from us, and we will not put you to death; also tell us what the king said to you;’

Then all the princes came to Jeremiah, and asked him; and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they stopped speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

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.”

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.

whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.

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

Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.

Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

But if you talk about this business of ours, then we shall be guiltless of your oath which you’ve made us to swear.”

But Rahab the prostitute, her father’s household, and all that she had, Joshua saved alive. She lives in the middle of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

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

Elisha said to them, “This is not the way, neither is this the city. Follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek.” He led them to Samaria.

Now after the death of Jehoiada, the princes of Judah came, and bowed down to the king. Then the king listened to them.

He who denounces his friends for plunder, Even the eyes of his children will fail.

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

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

My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent.

Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.

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

In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

A righteous man hates lies, but a wicked man brings shame and disgrace.

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

In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

A truthful witness saves souls, but a false witness is deceitful.

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

Debate your case with your neighbor, and don’t betray the confidence of another,

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

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

Yes also when the fool walks by the way, his understanding fails him, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.

The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat?” says Yahweh.

leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”

My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

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

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

For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.