heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,

Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good,

A Living Stone and a Holy People

So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.

having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.

“‘I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich) and the slander of those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.