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If a malicious witness takes the stand to accuse a man of a crime,
the two men involved in the dispute must stand in the presence of the LORD before the priests and the judges who are in office at the time.
The judges must make a thorough investigation, and if the witness proves to be a liar, giving false testimony against his brother,
then do to him as he intended to do to his brother. You must purge the evil from among you.
The rest of the people will hear of this and be afraid, and never again will such an evil thing be done among you.
Show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Deuteronomy Chapter 19: Verses 16 - 21
LORD, who may dwell in your sanctuary? Who may live on your holy hill?
He whose walk is blameless and who does what is righteous, who speaks the truth from his heart
and has no slander on his tongue, who does his neighbor no wrong and casts no slur on his fellowman,
Psalms Chapter 15: Verses 1 - 3
For I hear the slander of many; there is terror on every side; they conspire against me and plot to take my life.
Psalms Chapter 31: Verse 13
keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking lies.
Psalms Chapter 34: Verse 13
Ruthless witnesses come forward; they question me on things I know nothing about.
Psalms Chapter 35: Verse 11
Those who seek my life set their traps, those who would harm me talk of my ruin; all day long they plot deception.
Psalms Chapter 38: Verse 12
You speak continually against your brother and slander your own mother's son.
Psalms Chapter 50: Verse 20
You love every harmful word, O you deceitful tongue!
Psalms Chapter 52: Verse 4
for wicked and deceitful men have opened their mouths against me; they have spoken against me with lying tongues.
With words of hatred they surround me; they attack me without cause.
Psalms Chapter 109: Verses 2 - 3
They make their tongues as sharp as a serpent's; the poison of vipers is on their lips.
Psalms Chapter 140: Verse 3
a false witness who pours out lies and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers. Warning Against Adultery
Proverbs Chapter 6: Verse 19
He who conceals his hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool.
Proverbs Chapter 10: Verse 18
With his mouth the godless destroys his neighbor, but through knowledge the righteous escape.
Proverbs Chapter 11: Verse 9
A perverse man stirs up dissension, and a gossip separates close friends.
Proverbs Chapter 16: Verse 28
He who covers over an offense promotes love, but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends.
Proverbs Chapter 17: Verse 9
The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to a man's inmost parts.
Proverbs Chapter 18: Verse 8
As a north wind brings rain, so a sly tongue brings angry looks.
Proverbs Chapter 25: Verse 23
Without wood a fire goes out; without gossip a quarrel dies down.
Proverbs Chapter 26: Verse 20
The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to a man's inmost parts.
Proverbs Chapter 26: Verse 22
If a snake bites before it is charmed, there is no profit for the charmer.
Ecclesiastes Chapter 10: Verse 11
At the beginning his words are folly; at the end they are wicked madness-
Ecclesiastes Chapter 10: Verse 13
"Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.
Matthew Chapter 5: Verse 11
But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken.
Matthew Chapter 12: Verse 36
But they did not find any, though many false witnesses came forward.
Matthew Chapter 26: Verse 60
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.The Wise and Foolish Builders
Luke Chapter 6: Verse 45
Why not say,as we are being slanderously reported as saying and as some claim that we say,"Let us do evil that good may result"? Their condemnation is deserved.No One is Righteous
Romans Chapter 3: Verse 8
when we are slandered, we answer kindly. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world.
1 Corinthians Chapter 4: Verse 13
Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice.
Ephesians Chapter 4: Verse 31
In the same way, their wives are to be women worthy of respect, not malicious talkers but temperate and trustworthy in everything.
1 Timothy Chapter 3: Verse 11
Besides, they get into the habit of being idle and going about from house to house. And not only do they become idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things they ought not to.
1 Timothy Chapter 5: Verse 13
Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good.
Titus Chapter 2: Verse 3
Remind the people to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready to do whatever is good,
to slander no one, to be peaceable and considerate, and to show true humility toward all men.
Titus Chapter 3: Verses 1 - 2
Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.Submission to Rulers and Masters
1 Peter Chapter 2: Verse 12
For, "Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech.
1 Peter Chapter 3: Verse 10
keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander.
1 Peter Chapter 3: Verse 16
They think it strange that you do not plunge with them into the same flood of dissipation, and they heap abuse on you.
1 Peter Chapter 4: Verse 4
In the very same way, these dreamers pollute their own bodies, reject authority and slander celestial beings.
Jude Chapter 1: Verse 8
Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: "Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ. For the accuser of our brothers, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down.
Revelation Chapter 12: Verse 10
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