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Matthew 12:36*ESV / 127 helpful votes
I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak,
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Mark 7:20-23*ESV / 26 helpful votes
And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”
1 Corinthians 4:13*ESV / 25 helpful votes
When slandered, we entreat. We have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, the refuse of all things.
Proverbs 11:9*ESV / 25 helpful votes
With his mouth the godless man would destroy his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered.
Psalm 109:3*ESV / 25 helpful votes
They encircle me with words of hate, and attack me without cause.
Matthew 7:12*ESV / 24 helpful votes
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
James 1:19-20*ESV / 22 helpful votes
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
Psalm 50:20*ESV / 22 helpful votes
You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.
1 Peter 3:10*ESV / 21 helpful votes
For “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit;
2 Timothy 3:1-5*ESV / 20 helpful votes
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.
1 Corinthians 6:10*ESV / 20 helpful votes
Nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
Exodus 23:1*ESV / 20 helpful votes
“You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.
Ephesians 4:31-32*ESV / 19 helpful votes
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Proverbs 6:19*ESV / 18 helpful votes
A false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.
James 1:12*ESV / 17 helpful votes
Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
Mark 11:25*ESV / 17 helpful votes
And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”
Proverbs 17:9*ESV / 17 helpful votes
Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.
Proverbs 15:1*ESV / 17 helpful votes
A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
Galatians 5:19-21*ESV / 16 helpful votes
Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Proverbs 26:28*ESV / 16 helpful votes
A lying tongue hates its victims, and a flattering mouth works ruin.
Psalm 140:3*ESV / 16 helpful votes
They make their tongue sharp as a serpent's, and under their lips is the venom of asps. Selah
Job 5:21*ESV / 15 helpful votes
You shall be hidden from the lash of the tongue, and shall not fear destruction when it comes.
Colossians 3:8*ESV / 14 helpful votes
But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.
Proverbs 25:23*ESV / 14 helpful votes
The north wind brings forth rain, and a backbiting tongue, angry looks.
2 Peter 2:10*ESV / 13 helpful votes
And especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority. Bold and willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones,
Psalm 31:13*ESV / 12 helpful votes
For I hear the whispering of many— terror on every side!— as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.
Psalm 91:1-16*ESV / 11 helpful votes
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the*Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, ...
Romans 1:30*ESV / 10 helpful votes
Slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
Romans 1:29*ESV / 9 helpful votes
They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,
Mark 10:19*ESV / 9 helpful votes
You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.’”
1 Peter 4:4*ESV / 8 helpful votes
With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you;
Colossians 3:5*ESV / 8 helpful votes
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
Luke 22:65*ESV / 8 helpful votes
And they said many other things against him, blaspheming him.
1 Timothy 3:11*ESV / 7 helpful votes
Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded, faithful in all things.
Jeremiah 9:4*ESV / 7 helpful votes
Let everyone beware of his neighbor, and put no trust in any brother, for every brother is a deceiver, and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.
Ecclesiastes 10:13*ESV / 7 helpful votes
The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness, and the end of his talk is evil madness.
Proverbs 26:22*ESV / 7 helpful votes
The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.
Proverbs 20:22*ESV / 7 helpful votes
Do not say, “I will repay evil”; wait for the*Lord, and he will deliver you.
Psalm 64:3*ESV / 7 helpful votes
Who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows,
Revelation 12:10*ESV / 6 helpful votes
And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.
1 Peter 2:12*ESV / 6 helpful votes
Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.
Hebrews 13:5*ESV / 6 helpful votes
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
Ephesians 4:25-27*ESV / 6 helpful votes
Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil.
Jeremiah 6:28*ESV / 6 helpful votes
They are all stubbornly rebellious, going about with slanders; they are bronze and iron; all of them act corruptly.
1 Peter 2:20*ESV / 5 helpful votes
For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God.
Titus 3:3*ESV / 5 helpful votes
For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.
2 Timothy 2:22*ESV / 5 helpful votes
So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
1 Timothy 5:13*ESV / 5 helpful votes
Besides that, they learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not.
Ephesians 4:31*ESV / 5 helpful votes
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.
Ephesians 4:15*ESV / 5 helpful votes
Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,
Romans 3:8*ESV / 5 helpful votes
And why not do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.
Matthew 15:12*ESV / 5 helpful votes
Then the disciples came and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?”
Matthew 6:14-15*ESV / 5 helpful votes
For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Ezekiel 22:9*ESV / 5 helpful votes
There are men in you who slander to shed blood, and people in you who eat on the mountains; they commit lewdness in your midst.
Proverbs 11:1*ESV / 5 helpful votes
A false balance is an abomination to the*Lord, but a just weight is his delight.
Proverbs 10:12*ESV / 5 helpful votes
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.
Psalm 109:2*ESV / 5 helpful votes
For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues.
Psalm 41:5*ESV / 5 helpful votes
My enemies say of me in malice, “When will he die, and his name perish?”
Psalm 35:21*ESV / 5 helpful votes
They open wide their mouths against me; they say, “Aha, Aha! Our eyes have seen it!”
Leviticus 19:16*ESV / 5 helpful votes
You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand up against the life of your neighbor: I am the*Lord.
Jude 1:8*ESV / 4 helpful votes
Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones.
Titus 2:3*ESV / 4 helpful votes
Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good,
