²⁰ Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; Thou slanderest thine own mother's son.

²¹ And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father his child: and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

¹⁶ Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbor: I am Jehovah.

¹⁸ Let the lying lips be dumb, Which speak against the righteous insolently, With pride and contempt.

¹⁸ He that hideth hatred is of lying lips; And he that uttereth a slander is a fool.

¹¹ Blessed are ye when `men' shall reproach you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

⁶⁵ And many other things spake they against him, reviling him.

¹¹ Women in like manner `must be' grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

³ that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

¹⁰ And I heard a great voice in heaven, saying, Now is come the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, who accuseth them before our God day and night.