Slander

Many of them said, “He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?”

They spoke many other things against him, insulting him.

But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.”

They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”

Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the…

There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:

a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire, that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander,…

backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,

“ ‘You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people. “ ‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.

If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer’s tongue.

Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

My enemies speak evil against me: “When will he die, and his name perish?”

This is the reward of my adversaries from Yahweh, of those who speak evil against my soul.

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take…

Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

Soldiers also asked him, saying, “What about us? What must we do?” He said to them, “Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages.”