Psalms 101:5

World English Bible (2000)

I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won't tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.

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  • Ps 18:27 : 27 For you will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes you will bring down.
  • Ps 50:20 : 20 You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother's son.
  • Prov 30:13 : 13 There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.
  • Ps 15:3 : 3 He who doesn't slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;
  • Isa 2:11 : 11 The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the haughtiness of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.
  • Ezek 22:9 : 9 Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood; and in you they have eaten on the mountains: in the midst of you they have committed lewdness.
  • Dan 4:37 : 37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
  • Obad 1:3-4 : 3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, 'Who will bring me down to the ground?' 4 Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there," says Yahweh.
  • Luke 18:14 : 14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted."
  • 1 Cor 5:11 : 11 But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. Don't even eat with such a person.
  • 1 Tim 3:11 : 11 Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
  • Titus 2:3 : 3 and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;
  • 1 Pet 5:5-6 : 5 Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble." 6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time;
  • Ps 138:6 : 6 For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but the proud, he knows from afar.
  • Prov 6:16-19 : 16 There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him: 17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood; 18 a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief, 19 a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.
  • Prov 10:18 : 18 He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.
  • Prov 20:19 : 19 He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don't keep company with him who opens wide his lips.
  • Prov 25:23 : 23 The north wind brings forth rain: so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.
  • Exod 20:16 : 16 "You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
  • Exod 23:1 : 1 "You shall not spread a false report. Don't join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
  • Lev 19:16 : 16 "'You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people. "'You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.
  • 1 Sam 2:3 : 3 "Talk no more so exceeding proudly. Don't let arrogance come out of your mouth, For Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.
  • Job 40:11-12 : 11 Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low. 12 Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.
  • Ps 10:2-4 : 2 In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise. 3 For the wicked boasts of his heart's cravings. He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh. 4 The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

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