For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, acts of adultery, other immoral sexual acts, thefts, false testimonies, and slanderous statements.

deeds of greed, wickedness, deceit, indecent behavior, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.

slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,

And why not say (just as we are slanderously reported and as some claim that we say), “Let’s do evil that good may come of it”? Their condemnation is deserved.

when we are slandered, we reply as friends; we have become as the scum of the world, the dregs of all things, even until now.

If I partake with thankfulness, why am I slandered about that for which I give thanks?

For I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you to be not what I wish, and may be found by you to be not what you wish; that perhaps there will be strife, jealousy, angry tempers, selfishness, slanders, gossip, arrogance, disturbances;

All bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and slander must be removed from you, along with all malice.

But now you also, rid yourselves of all of them: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene speech from your mouth.

For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

to slander no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing every consideration for all people.

As Newborn Babes

Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander,

Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God on the day of visitation.

and keep a good conscience so that in the thing in which you are slandered, those who disparage your good behavior in Christ will be put to shame.

In all this, they are surprised that you do not run with them in the same excesses of debauchery, and they slander you;

‘I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich), and the slander by those who say they are Jews, and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.