Proverbs 25:9

Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.

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.”

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

“Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!

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.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

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

Then Laban and Bethuel answered, “The thing proceeds from Yahweh. We can’t speak to you bad or good.

“ ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

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.”

Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, “Aha! Aha!”

Let them be turned because of their shame who say, “Aha! Aha!”

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

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;

“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.

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.

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

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.

Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

He said, “Canaan is cursed. He will be a servant of servants to his brothers.”

The sons of Ham were: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land at that time.

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

Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.

They said, “We can’t, until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well’s mouth. Then we water the sheep.”

Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held his peace until they came.

The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

then it shall be, if he has sinned, and is guilty, he shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he has gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found,

“Say to the children of Israel, ‘If any man of you or of your generations is unclean by reason of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, he shall still keep the Passover to Yahweh.

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

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

She said to him, “Give me a blessing; because you have set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water.” Then Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

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

The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

Canaan became the father of Sidon his firstborn, Heth,

He put shields and spears in every city, and made them exceedingly strong. Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.

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.

Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.”

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.

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

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

A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into a fool.

A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city. Disputes are like the bars of a fortress.

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

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

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

Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

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

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

“If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,

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

Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”

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

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

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

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

I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.

He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness even until now.

But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is in heaven.