who does not slander with his tongue,(A)
who does not harm his friend
or discredit his neighbor,(B)

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He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.

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28 All are stubborn rebels
spreading slander.(A)
They are bronze and iron;
all of them are corrupt.(B)

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28 They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.

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Imminent Ruin and Exile

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.(A)

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Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.

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22 You are blessed when people hate you,
when they exclude you,(A) insult you,
and slander your name as evil(B)
because of the Son of Man.(C)

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22 Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.

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through glory(A) and dishonor,
through slander and good report;
as deceivers yet true;

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By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;

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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;[a] there may be quarreling,(A) jealousy,(B) outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions,(C) slander,(D) gossip, arrogance, and disorder.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 12:20 Lit be as you want

20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

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31 All bitterness, anger and wrath, shouting and slander must be removed from you, along with all malice.

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31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

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But now you must also put away(A) all the following: anger,(B) wrath,(C) malice,(D) slander,(E) and filthy language from your mouth.(F)

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But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

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to slander no one, to avoid fighting, and to be kind, always showing gentleness(A) to all people.

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To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.

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The Living Stone and a Holy People

So rid yourselves of(A) all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander.(B)

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Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

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So they are surprised that you don’t plunge with them into the same flood[a] of wild living—and they slander you.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 4:4 Lit you don’t run with them into the same pouring out

Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

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I know your[a] affliction and poverty, yet you are rich. I know the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 2:9 Other mss add works and

I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

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