whose tongue utters no slander,(A)
    who does no wrong to a neighbor,
    and casts no slur on others;

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He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.

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28 They are all hardened rebels,(A)
    going about to slander.(B)
They are bronze and iron;(C)
    they all act corruptly.

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28 They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.

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“Beware of your friends;(A)
    do not trust anyone in your clan.(B)
For every one of them is a deceiver,[a](C)
    and every friend a slanderer.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:4 Or a deceiving Jacob

Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.

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22 Blessed are you when people hate you,
    when they exclude you(A) and insult you(B)
    and reject your name as evil,
        because of the Son of Man.(C)

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22 Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.

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through glory and dishonor,(A) bad report(B) and good report; genuine, yet regarded as impostors;(C)

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By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;

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20 For I am afraid that when I come(A) I may not find you as I want you to be, and you may not find me as you want me to be.(B) I fear that there may be discord,(C) jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition,(D) slander,(E) gossip,(F) arrogance(G) and disorder.(H)

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20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

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31 Get rid of(A) all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice.(B)

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31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

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But now you must also rid yourselves(A) of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander,(B) and filthy language from your lips.(C)

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But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

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to slander no one,(A) to be peaceable and considerate, and always to be gentle toward everyone.

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To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.

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