Proverbs 22:10

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

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

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

That prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which Yahweh your God commanded you to walk in. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

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

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

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

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

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

For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.

and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.

His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.

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

And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

The hands of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall remove the evil from among you. All Israel shall hear, and fear.

Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don’t I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness?

But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite servant, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, and despised us, and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?”

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

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

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

The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

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

Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

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

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

The man who does presumptuously in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die. You shall put away the evil from Israel.

then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn’t cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor’s wife. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

The children of Israel who had returned out of the captivity, and all who had separated themselves to them from the filthiness of the nations of the land, to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, ate,

When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, because a man had come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.

Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the sheep gate. They sanctified it, and set up its doors. They sanctified it even to the tower of Hammeah, to the tower of Hananel.

Jeshua became the father of Joiakim, and Joiakim became the father of Eliashib, and Eliashib became the father of Joiada,

As for the Levites, in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, there were recorded the heads of fathers’ households; also the priests, in the reign of Darius the Persian.

Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the rooms of the house of our God, being allied to Tobiah,

One of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite; therefore I chased him from me.

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.

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

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.

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

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.

The proud and arrogant man—“Scoffer” is his name— he works in the arrogance of pride.

Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, and don’t associate with one who harbors anger:

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

The north wind produces rain; so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.

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

Mockers stir up a city, but wise men turn away anger.

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

Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Hear Yahweh’s word, you who tremble at his word: “Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name’s sake, have said, ‘Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy;’ but it is those who shall be disappointed.

“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.

You will know that I am Yahweh, for you have not walked in my statutes, You have not executed my ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are around you.” ’ ”

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

Most certainly, I tell you, whoever doesn’t receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it.”

They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

You are arrogant, and didn’t mourn instead, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.

But those who are outside, God judges. “Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.”

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

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

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

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.

then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which is the plague, and cast them into an unclean place outside of the city.

When the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they each departed to his place.

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

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.’ ”

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.

The king said to him, “Why do you speak any more of your matters? I say, you and Ziba divide the land.”

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

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

When wickedness comes, contempt also comes, and with shame comes disgrace.

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

A wise king winnows out the wicked, and drives the threshing wheel over them.

The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men.

One who is greedy stirs up strife; but one who trusts in Yahweh will prosper.

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.

They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out.

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.