Ecclesiastes 7:21

Ecclesiastes 7:21
Also don’t take heed to all words that are spoken, lest you hear your servant curse you;

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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.

1 Samuel 24:9
David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to men’s words, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you?’

1 Samuel 26:19
Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so that Yahweh has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, they are cursed before Yahweh; for they have driven me out today that I shouldn’t cling to Yahweh’s inheritance, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods!’

Psalms 101:5
I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.

Psalms 141:6
Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock. They will hear my words, for they are well spoken.

Proverbs 16:28
A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

Proverbs 17:4
An evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.

Proverbs 18:8
The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.

Proverbs 25:23
The north wind produces rain; so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.

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.

Proverbs 26:22
The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, they go down into the innermost parts.

Proverbs 26:28
A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.

Proverbs 29:12
If a ruler listens to lies, all of his officials are wicked.

James 3:6
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.

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Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

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Psalms 38:14
Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.

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Psalms 38:15
For I hope in you, Yahweh. You will answer, Lord my God.

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Proverbs 20:9
Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?”

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Ecclesiastes 7:1
A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one’s birth.

Ecclesiastes 7:16
Don’t be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself?

Ecclesiastes 7:17
Don’t be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?

Ecclesiastes 7:18
It is good that you should take hold of this. Yes, also don’t withdraw your hand from that; for he who fears God will come out of them all.

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Ecclesiastes 8:10
So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.

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Ecclesiastes 10:20
Don’t curse the king, no, not in your thoughts; and don’t curse the rich in your bedroom, for a bird of the sky may carry your voice, and that which has wings may tell the matter.

Luke 19:40
He answered them, “I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out.”

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Matthew 7:1
“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged.

1 Corinthians 4:3
But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by a human court. Yes, I don’t even judge my own self.

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Matthew 18:32
Then his lord called him in and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me.

Matthew 18:33
Shouldn’t you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?’

Matthew 18:34
His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors until he should pay all that was due to him.

Matthew 18:35
So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”

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Luke 18:9
He also spoke this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others:

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Luke 18:11
The Pharisee stood and prayed by himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men: extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

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2 Samuel 16:10
The king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because Yahweh has said to him, ‘Curse David,’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’ ”

2 Samuel 19:19
He said to the king, “Don’t let my lord impute iniquity to me, or remember that which your servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.

Psalms 35:15
But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease.

Isaiah 29:21
who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for one who reproves in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

1 Corinthians 13:5
doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

1 Corinthians 13:6
doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

1 Corinthians 13:7
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

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1 Peter 2:18
Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.

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