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20 You sit around and slander your brother—
    your own mother’s son.

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21 “A brother will betray his brother to death, a father will betray his own child, and children will rebel against their parents and cause them to be killed.

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10 Then I heard a loud voice shouting across the heavens,

“It has come at last—
    salvation and power
and the Kingdom of our God,
    and the authority of his Christ.[a]
For the accuser of our brothers and sisters[b]
    has been thrown down to earth—
the one who accuses them
    before our God day and night.

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Footnotes

  1. 12:10a Or his Messiah.
  2. 12:10b Greek brothers.

11 “God blesses you when people mock you and persecute you and lie about you and say all sorts of evil things against you because you are my followers.

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18 Hiding hatred makes you a liar;
    slandering others makes you a fool.

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18 Silence their lying lips—
    those proud and arrogant lips that accuse the godly.

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16 “Do not spread slanderous gossip among your people.[a]

“Do not stand idly by when your neighbor’s life is threatened. I am the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 19:16 Hebrew Do not act as a merchant toward your own people.

Similarly, teach the older women to live in a way that honors God. They must not slander others or be heavy drinkers.[a] Instead, they should teach others what is good.

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  1. 2:3 Greek be enslaved to much wine.

11 In the same way, their wives[a] must be respected and must not slander others. They must exercise self-control and be faithful in everything they do.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:11 Or the women deacons. The Greek word can be translated women or wives.

65 And they hurled all sorts of terrible insults at him.

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