Ephesians 4:31
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31 Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice.(A)
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Colossians 3:8
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8 But now you must get rid of all such things: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive[a] language from your mouth.(A)
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- 3.8 Or filthy
Titus 3:2-3
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2 to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show every courtesy to everyone.(A) 3 For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, despicable, hating one another.(B)
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Ecclesiastes 7:9
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9 Do not be quick to anger,
for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.(A)
1 Peter 2:1
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The Living Stone and a Chosen People
2 Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice and all guile, insincerity, envy, and all slander.(A)
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James 1:19
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Hearing and Doing the Word
19 You must understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger,(A)
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Colossians 3:19
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19 Husbands, love your wives and never treat them harshly.
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James 3:14-4:2
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14 But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not be arrogant and lie about the truth. 15 This is not wisdom that comes down from above but is earthly, unspiritual, devilish.(A) 16 For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there will also be disorder and wickedness of every kind.(B) 17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy.(C) 18 And the fruit of righteousness[a] is sown in peace by those who make peace.(D)
Friendship with the World
4 Those conflicts and disputes among you, where do they come from? Do they not come from your cravings that are at war within you? 2 You want something and do not have it, so you commit murder. And you covet[b] something and cannot obtain it, so you engage in disputes and conflicts. You do not have because you do not ask.
Ephesians 4:26
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26 Be angry but do not sin;[a] do not let the sun go down on your anger,
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- 4.26 Or If you are angry, do not sin
1 John 3:12
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12 We must not be like Cain, who was from the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous.
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Leviticus 19:16-18
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16 You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand idly by when the blood[a] of your neighbor is at stake: I am the Lord.(A)
17 “You shall not hate in your heart anyone of your kin; you shall reprove your neighbor, or you will incur guilt yourself.(B) 18 You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against any of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.(C)
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- 19.16 Heb stand against the blood
James 4:11
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Warning against Judging Another
11 Do not speak evil against one another, brothers and sisters. Whoever speaks evil against another or judges another 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.(A)
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Romans 1:29-30
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29 They were filled with every kind of injustice, evil, covetousness, malice. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, craftiness, they are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters,[a] insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, rebellious toward parents,(A)
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- 1.30 Or God-hated
Proverbs 26:20
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20 For lack of wood the fire goes out,
and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases.(A)
Psalm 101:5
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5 One who secretly slanders a neighbor
I will destroy.
A haughty look and an arrogant heart
I will not tolerate.(A)
Titus 1:7
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7 For a bishop,[a] as God’s steward, must be blameless; he must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or addicted to wine or violent or greedy for gain,(A)
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- 1.7 Or an overseer
1 Timothy 3:11
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11 Women[a] likewise must be serious, not slanderers, but temperate, faithful in all things.
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- 3.11 Or Women deacons or Wives
2 Corinthians 12:20
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20 For I fear that when I come I may find you not as I wish and that you may find me not as you wish; I fear that there may perhaps be quarreling, jealousy, anger, selfishness, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.(A)
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1 Corinthians 14:20
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20 Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking; rather, be infants in evil, but in thinking be adults.(A)
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Proverbs 29:22
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22 One given to anger stirs up strife,
and the hothead causes much transgression.(A)
Proverbs 26:24-25
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24 An enemy dissembles in speaking
while harboring deceit within;(A)
25 when an enemy speaks graciously, do not believe it,
for there are seven abominations concealed within;(B)
Proverbs 14:17
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17 One who is quick-tempered acts foolishly,
and the schemer is hated.(A)
Proverbs 10:18
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18 Lying lips conceal hatred,
and whoever utters slander is a fool.
Proverbs 10:12
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12 Hatred stirs up strife,
but love covers all offenses.(A)
1 Timothy 6:4-5
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4 is conceited, understanding nothing, and has a morbid craving for controversy and for disputes about words. From these come envy, dissension, slander, base suspicions,(A) 5 and wrangling among those who are depraved in mind and bereft of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.[a](B)
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- 6.5 Other ancient authorities add Withdraw yourself from such people
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