Psalms 15:3

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

not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.

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

“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,

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,

Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him and doesn’t know him.

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

Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.

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!

Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

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

“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, and the holy of Yahweh honorable; and honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words,

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.

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 take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

Now therefore, don’t let my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of Yahweh; for the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains.”

Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands,

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

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

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

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

When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.

The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”

The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

“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.

See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good for one another and for all.

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

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

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

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

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God didn’t deliver him into his hand.

See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself, and come again to me with certainty, and I will go with you. It shall happen, if he is in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.”

Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For Yahweh will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights Yahweh’s battles. Evil will not be found in you all your days.

You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You will pay your vows.

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

My praise of you comes in the great assembly. I will pay my vows before those who fear him.

Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.

Depart from evil, and do good. Live securely forever.

Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.

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

For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.

Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.

I will pay my vows to Yahweh, yes, in the presence of all his people.

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

An evil speaker won’t be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

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

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

One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.

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

Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.

Make my Sabbaths holy. They shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.’

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

But I tell you, don’t resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

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

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.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

Abstain from every form of evil.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance:

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”

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

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

“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.

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

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.

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

When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn’t kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it.

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.

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

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

As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.

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

Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast; who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

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

Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.

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.

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

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.