²⁰ You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother's son.

²¹ "Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

¹⁶ "'You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people; neither shall you stand against the life{literally, "blood"} of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.

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

¹⁸ He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.

¹¹ "Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

⁶⁵ They spoke many other things against him, insulting him.

¹¹ Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

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

¹⁰ I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now is come the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.