¹⁴ And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:

¹⁴ I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

²¹ Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

⁸ The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

¹⁹ And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.

23 Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

¹⁶ Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.