Proverbs 26:20

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

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

A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

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

He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

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

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

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

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.

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

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

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

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

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

Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.

There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.

For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire, that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, or riots,

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

“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.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

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.

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

“ ‘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.

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.

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

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

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

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

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

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

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

Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.

As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.

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

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

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

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.

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

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 two men, the wicked fellows, came in and sat before him. The wicked fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones.

Out of the north comes golden splendor. With God is awesome majesty.

You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

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

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.

Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about.

All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.

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

A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a trustworthy envoy gains healing.

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

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.

A false witness will perish. A man who listens speaks to eternity.

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

If a ruler listens to lies, all of his officials are wicked.

For as the churning of milk produces butter, and the wringing of the nose produces blood; so the forcing of wrath produces strife.”

“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.

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

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

being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.

Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.