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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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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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  1. 3.8 Or filthy

to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show every courtesy to everyone.(A) 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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Do not be quick to anger,
    for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.(A)

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The Living Stone and a Chosen People

Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice and all guile, insincerity, envy, and all slander.(A)

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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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19 Husbands, love your wives and never treat them harshly.

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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

Those conflicts and disputes among you, where do they come from? Do they not come from your cravings that are at war within you? 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.

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  1. 3.18 Or justice
  2. 4.2 Or you murder and you covet

26 Be angry but do not sin;[a] do not let the sun go down on your anger,

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  1. 4.26 Or If you are angry, do not sin

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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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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  1. 19.16 Heb stand against the blood

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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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. 1.30 Or God-hated