Hold Your Peace and Sin Not With Your Lips

Leviticus 19:16 Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou
stand against the blood of thy neighbour; I am the Lord.

Exodus 23:1-3 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline
after many to wrest judgment:

Job 2:10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we
receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

Psalm 34:13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

Psalm 140:11 Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to
overthrow him.

Jeremiah 9:1-5 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.

Numbers 14:35-37 And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the
congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,

Psalm 50:19-21 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.

Jeremiah 4:31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth
forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands,
saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.

Matthew 5:20-22 Ye have heard that it was said of them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever
shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:

Numbers 35:30-31 Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of
witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.

Psalm 31:12-14 For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel
together against me, they devised to take away my life.

2 Timothy 3:1-7 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of
those that are good…

Proverbs 10:17-19 He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.

1 Peter 3:16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may
be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.
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slander

law: the action or crime of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person's reputation.

"he is suing the TV network for slander"

VERB: make false and damaging statements about (someone).

talebearer

NOUN: a person who maliciously gossips or reveals secrets.

gossip

NOUN: casual or unconstrained conversation or reports about other people, typically involving details
that are not confirmed as being true.

"he became the subject of much local gossip"

judgment

Judgement: the ability to make considered decisions or come to sensible conclusions.

"they make subjective judgments about children's skills"

a misfortune or calamity viewed as a divine punishment.

"the crash had been a judgment on the parents for wickedness"