You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.
Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death,
And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.
“Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.
The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever utters slander is a fool.
Let the lying lips be mute, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.
You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand up against the life of your neighbor: I am the Lord.
Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good,
Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded, faithful in all things.
And they said many other things against him, blaspheming him.
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