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Colossians 3:8
But now you must also put away all the following: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and filthy language from your mouth.
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Ecclesiastes 7:9
Don’t let your spirit rush to be angry, for anger abides in the heart of fools.
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1 Peter 2 1
So rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander.
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Titus 3:2-3
to slander no one, to avoid fighting, and to be kind, always showing gentleness to all people.For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.
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James 1:19
My dearly loved brothers, understand this: Everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger,
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Ephesians 4:26
Be angry and do not sin. Don’t let the sun go down on your anger,
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James 3:14-4:2
But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t brag and deny the truth.Such wisdom does not come from above but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.For where envy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every kind of evil.But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peace-loving, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without favoritism and hypocrisy.And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who cultivate peace.What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from the cravings that are at war within you?You desire and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. You do not have because you do not ask.
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Colossians 3:19
Husbands, love your wives and don’t be bitter toward them.
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1 John 3 12
unlike Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil, and his brother’s were righteous.
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1 Corinthians 14 20
Brothers, don’t be childish in your thinking, but be infants in regard to evil and adult in your thinking.
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James 4:11
Don’t criticize one another, brothers. He who criticizes a brother or judges his brother criticizes the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
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Leviticus 19:16-18
You must not go about spreading slander among your people; you must not jeopardize your neighbor’s life; I am Yahweh.“ You must not harbor hatred against your brother. Rebuke your neighbor directly, and you will not incur guilt because of him.Do not take revenge or bear a grudge against members of your community, but love your neighbor as yourself; I am Yahweh.
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Proverbs 26:20
Without wood, fire goes out; without a gossip, conflict dies down.
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Titus 1:7
For an overseer, as God’s administrator, must be blameless, not arrogant, not hot-tempered, not addicted to wine, not a bully, not greedy for money,
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1 Timothy 3 11
Wives, too, must be worthy of respect, not slanderers, self-controlled, faithful in everything.
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1 Timothy 5 13
At the same time, they also learn to be idle, going from house to house; they are not only idle, but are also gossips and busybodies, saying things they shouldn’t say.
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Proverbs 10:18
The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool.
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Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirs up conflicts, but love covers all offenses.
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Romans 1:29-30
They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,slanderers, God-haters, arrogant, proud, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
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Proverbs 29:22
An angry man stirs up conflict, and a hot-tempered man increases rebellion.
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2 Corinthians 12 20
For I fear that perhaps when I come I will not find you to be what I want, and I may not be found by you to be what you want; there may be quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.
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Proverbs 14:17
A quick-tempered man acts foolishly, and a man who schemes is hated.
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2 Samuel 19 27
Ziba slandered your servant to my lord the king. But my lord the king is like the Angel of God, so do whatever you think best.
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Psalms 50:20
You sit, maligning your brother, slandering your mother’s son.
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Genesis 37:4
When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not bring themselves to speak peaceably to him.
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Psalms 15:3
who does not slander with his tongue, who does not harm his friend or discredit his neighbor,
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Psalms 101:5
I will destroy anyone who secretly slanders his neighbor; I cannot tolerate anyone with haughty eyes or an arrogant heart.
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Proverbs 26:24-25
A hateful person disguises himself with his speech and harbors deceit within.When he speaks graciously, don’t believe him, for there are seven abominations in his heart.
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Proverbs 25:23
The north wind produces rain, and a backbiting tongue, angry looks.
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1 Timothy 6 4-1 Timothy 6 5
he is conceited, understanding nothing, but has a sick interest in disputes and arguments over words. From these come envy, quarreling, slander, evil suspicions,and constant disagreement among people whose minds are depraved and deprived of the truth, who imagine that godliness is a way to material gain.
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Galatians 5:20
idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions,
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Proverbs 18:8
A gossip’s words are like choice food that goes down to one’s innermost being.
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Proverbs 6:19
a lying witness who gives false testimony, and one who stirs up trouble among brothers.
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Romans 3:14
Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
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1 Corinthians 5 8
Therefore, let us observe the feast, not with old yeast or with the yeast of malice and evil but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
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Genesis 27:41
Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau determined in his heart:“ The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
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Genesis 4:8
Cain said to his brother Abel,“ Let’s go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.
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Psalms 140:11
Do not let a slanderer stay in the land. Let evil relentlessly hunt down a violent man.
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Psalms 64:3
who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim bitter words like arrows,
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Proverbs 29:9
If a wise man goes to court with a fool, there will be ranting and raving but no resolution.
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2 Samuel 19 43-2 Samuel 20 2
The men of Israel answered the men of Judah:“ We have 10 shares in the king, so we have a greater claim to David than you. Why then do you despise us? Weren’t we the first to speak of restoring our king?” But the words of the men of Judah were harsher than those of the men of Israel.Now a wicked man, a Benjaminite named Sheba son of Bichri, happened to be there. He blew the ram’s horn and shouted: We have no portion in David, no inheritance in Jesse’s son. Each man to his tent, Israel!So all the men of Israel deserted David and followed Sheba son of Bichri, but the men of Judah from the Jordan all the way to Jerusalem remained loyal to their king.
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2 Samuel 13 22
Absalom didn’t say anything to Amnon, either good or bad, because he hated Amnon since he disgraced his sister Tamar.
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2 Timothy 2 23
But reject foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they breed quarrels.
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2 Peter 2 10-2 Peter 2 11
especially those who follow the polluting desires of the flesh and despise authority. Bold, arrogant people! They do not tremble when they blaspheme the glorious ones;however, angels, who are greater in might and power, do not bring a slanderous charge against them before the Lord.
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1 Timothy 3 3
not addicted to wine, not a bully but gentle, not quarrelsome, not greedy—
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Jude 1:8-10
Nevertheless, these dreamers likewise defile their flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme glorious ones.Yet Michael the archangel, when he was disputing with the Devil in a debate about Moses’ body, did not dare bring an abusive condemnation against him but said,“ The Lord rebuke you!”But these people blaspheme anything they don’t understand. What they know by instinct like unreasoning animals— they destroy themselves with these things.
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Revelation 12:10
Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: The salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Messiah have now come, because the accuser of our brothers has been thrown out: the one who accuses them before our God day and night.
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Genesis 37:21
When Reuben heard this, he tried to save him from them. He said,“ Let’s not take his life.”
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1 John 3 15
Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.
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Proverbs 19:12
A king’s rage is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
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Acts 19:28-29
When they had heard this, they were filled with rage and began to cry out,“ Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”So the city was filled with confusion, and they rushed all together into the amphitheater, dragging along Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians who were Paul’s traveling companions.
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Titus 2:3
In the same way, older women are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not addicted to much wine. They are to teach what is good,
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Jeremiah 9:4
Everyone has to be on guard against his friend. Don’t trust any brother, for every brother will certainly deceive, and every friend spread slander.
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Acts 21:30
The whole city was stirred up, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul, dragged him out of the temple complex, and at once the gates were shut.
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Jeremiah 6:28
All are stubborn rebels spreading slander. They are bronze and iron; all of them are corrupt.
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Acts 22:22-23
They listened to him up to this word. Then they raised their voices, shouting,“ Wipe this person off the earth— it’s a disgrace for him to live!”As they were yelling and flinging aside their robes and throwing dust into the air,
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2 Timothy 3 3
unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good,