Ephesians 4:31
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31 (A)Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.
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Colossians 3:8
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8 But now (A)you must put them all away: (B)anger, wrath, malice, (C)slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.
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Titus 3:2-3
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2 (A)to speak evil of no one, (B)to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and (C)to show perfect courtesy toward all people. 3 For (D)we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.
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Ecclesiastes 7:9
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- Ecclesiastes 7:9 Hebrew in the bosom
1 Peter 2:1
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A Living Stone and a Holy People
2 (A)So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.
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James 1:19
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Hearing and Doing the Word
19 (A)Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person (B)be quick to hear, (C)slow to speak, (D)slow to anger;
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Ephesians 4:26
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26 (A)Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,
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James 3:14-4:2
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14 But if you have bitter (A)jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. 15 This is not (B)the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, (C)demonic. 16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. 17 But (D)the wisdom from above is first pure, then (E)peaceable, gentle, open to reason, (F)full of mercy and good fruits, (G)impartial and (H)sincere. 18 And (I)a harvest of righteousness (J)is sown in peace by those who make peace.
Warning Against Worldliness
4 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions[a] are (K)at war within you?[b] 2 You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.
Colossians 3:19
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19 Husbands, love your wives, and (A)do not be harsh with them.
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Leviticus 19:16-18
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16 (A)You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not (B)stand up against the life[a] of your neighbor: I am the Lord.
17 (C)“You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but (D)you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you (E)incur sin because of him. 18 (F)You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but (G)you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
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- Leviticus 19:16 Hebrew blood
1 John 3:12
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12 We should not be like (A)Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? (B)Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous.
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James 4:11
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11 (A)Do not speak evil against one another, brothers.[a] The one who speaks against a brother or (B)judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
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- James 4:11 Or brothers and sisters
Romans 1:29-30
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29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
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Proverbs 26:20
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1 Timothy 3:11
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11 (A)Their wives likewise[a] must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded, (B)faithful in all things.
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- 1 Timothy 3:11 Or Wives likewise, or Women likewise
2 Corinthians 12:20
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20 For I fear that perhaps (A)when I come I may find you not as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish—that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.
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1 Corinthians 14:20
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20 Brothers, (A)do not be children in your thinking. (B)Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be (C)mature.
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Proverbs 29:22
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22 (A)A man of wrath stirs up strife,
and one given to anger causes much transgression.
Proverbs 26:24-25
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24 Whoever hates disguises himself with his lips
and harbors deceit in his heart;
25 (A)when he speaks graciously, believe him not,
for there are (B)seven abominations in his heart;
Proverbs 14:17
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17 A man of (A)quick temper acts foolishly,
and a man of evil devices is hated.
Proverbs 10:18
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18 The one who conceals hatred has lying lips,
and whoever utters slander is a fool.
Proverbs 10:12
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12 Hatred stirs up strife,
but (A)love covers all offenses.
Psalm 101:5
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5 Whoever slanders his neighbor (A)secretly
I will (B)destroy.
Whoever has a (C)haughty look and an (D)arrogant heart
I will not endure.
1 Timothy 6:4-5
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4 (A)he is puffed up with conceit and (B)understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for (C)controversy and for (D)quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, 5 and constant friction among people (E)who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, (F)imagining that godliness is a means of gain.
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