Psalms 101:5
I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.
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Psalms 101:5
I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.
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Psalms 101:1
I will sing of loving kindness and justice. To you, Yahweh, I will sing praises.
Psalms 101:2
I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.
Psalms 101:3
I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.
Psalms 101:4
A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil.
Psalms 101:5
I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.
Psalms 101:6
My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, he will serve me.
Psalms 101:7
He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes.
Psalms 101:8
Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land, to cut off all the workers of iniquity from Yahweh’s city.
Genesis 18:19
For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”
Joshua 24:15
If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”
2 Samuel 8:15
David reigned over all Israel; and David executed justice and righteousness for all his people.
2 Samuel 23:3
The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, ‘One who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God,
Psalms 45:7
You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
Psalms 75:2
When I choose the appointed time, I will judge blamelessly.
Proverbs 29:12
If a ruler listens to lies, all of his officials are wicked.
1 Timothy 3:4
one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;
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Proverbs 6:16
There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:
Proverbs 6:17
arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
Psalms 18:27
For you will save the afflicted people, but the arrogant eyes you will bring down.
Psalms 131:1
Yahweh, my heart isn’t arrogant, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.
Psalms 10:4
The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.
Isaiah 2:11
The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the arrogance of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.
Isaiah 2:12
For there will be a day of Yahweh of Armies for all that is proud and arrogant, and for all that is lifted up, and it shall be brought low—
Job 40:12
Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.
Isaiah 3:9
The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don’t hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.
Luke 18:14
I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
1 Peter 5:5
Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility and subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
Job 22:29
When they cast down, you will say, ‘be lifted up.’ He will save the humble person.
Proverbs 15:25
Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.
Proverbs 29:23
A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.
Luke 1:52
He has put down princes from their thrones, and has exalted the lowly.
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Psalms 15:3
he who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;
Proverbs 25:23
The north wind produces rain; so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.
Psalms 50:20
You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.
Proverbs 10:18
He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.
Exodus 20:16
“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
Leviticus 19:16
“ ‘You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people. “ ‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.
2 Samuel 16:3
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.’ ”
2 Samuel 19:27
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.
Exodus 23:1
“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
Exodus 23:7
“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.
Deuteronomy 19:18
and the judges shall make diligent inquisition; and behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother,
Deuteronomy 19:19
then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
2 Samuel 19:29
The king said to him, “Why do you speak any more of your matters? I say, you and Ziba divide the land.”
Proverbs 17:4
An evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.
Proverbs 21:28
A false witness will perish. A man who listens speaks to eternity.
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Proverbs 21:4
A high look and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin.
Proverbs 30:13
There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.
Proverbs 30:10
“Don’t slander a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be held guilty.
Isaiah 3:16
Moreover Yahweh said, “Because the daughters of Zion are arrogant, and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, walking daintily as they go, jingling ornaments on their feet;
Jeremiah 50:32
The proud one will stumble and fall, and no one will raise him up. I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it will devour all who are around him.”
Malachi 4:1
“For behold, the day comes, burning like a furnace, when all the proud and all who work wickedness will be stubble. The day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
2 Thessalonians 2:4
He opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.
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Jeremiah 9:4
“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.
Romans 1:30
backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
2 Corinthians 12:20
For I am afraid that perhaps 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 perhaps there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, or riots,
Psalms 31:13
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.
Proverbs 11:9
With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor, but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge.
1 Samuel 24:9
David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to men’s words, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you?’
Job 29:17
I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
Jeremiah 20:10
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.”
1 Timothy 3:11
Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.
Titus 2:3
and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good,
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Proverbs 16:13
Righteous lips are the delight of kings. They value one who speaks the truth.
Psalms 78:72
So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.
Psalms 139:22
I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.
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Proverbs 26:20
For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.
Proverbs 26:21
As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife.
1 Corinthians 5:11
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.
Proverbs 22:10
Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.
Matthew 18:17
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.
1 Corinthians 5:5
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.
1 Corinthians 5:6
Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?
1 Corinthians 5:13
But those who are outside, God judges. “Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.”
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Isaiah 1:13
Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me. New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations— I can’t stand evil assemblies.
Jeremiah 44:22
Thus Yahweh could no longer bear it, because of the evil of your doings and because of the abominations which you have committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation, an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is today.
Hosea 8:5
Let Samaria throw out his calf idol! My anger burns against them! How long will it be until they are capable of purity?
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