Psalms 41:7

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

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

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

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

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

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.

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.

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

“You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side. There was no one that escaped or remained in the day of Yahweh’s anger. My enemy has consumed those whom I have cared for and brought up.

For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers, by those who are from Chloe’s household, that there are contentions among you.

for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?

“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.

They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.

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?

Don’t go out into the field or walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and terror are on every side.

On the next day, Pashhur released Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, “Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib.

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

But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.

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

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

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

as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;

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

The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,

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

For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns Yahweh.

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.

In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into the middle of it themselves.

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.

They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.

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

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.

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

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

Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but joy comes to the promoters of peace.

The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.

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

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

An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.

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

who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

Let a cry be heard from their houses when you bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me and hidden snares for my feet.

But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”

After the treaty made with him he will work deceitfully; for he will come up, and will become strong, with a small people.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.

Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question,

Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;

The Pharisees came out and began to question him, seeking from him a sign from heaven, and testing him.

lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.

Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”

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

Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.

Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh.

and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience is made full.

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,

that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness, sexual immorality, and lustfulness which they committed.

I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, I write to those who have sinned before now, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare;

Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.