Psalm 50:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

You sit and speak against your kin; you slander your own mother’s child.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; Thou slanderest thine own mother's son.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.

American Standard Version (1901)

Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; Thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.

Common English Bible

You sit around, talking about your own siblings; you find fault with the children of your very own mother.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Act kindly, Lord, in your good will toward Zion, so that the walls of Jerusalem may be built up.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Deal favourably, O Lord, in thy good will with Sion; that the walls of Jerusalem may be built up.

Psalm 50:20 Cross References

Psalm 31:18

Let the lying lips be stilled that speak insolently against the righteous with pride and contempt.

Proverbs 10:18

Lying lips conceal hatred, and whoever utters slander is a fool.

Leviticus 19:16

You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand idly by when the blood of your neighbor is at stake: I am the Lord.

Matthew 10:21

Sibling will betray sibling to death and a father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death,

Matthew 5:11

“Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.

Luke 22:65

They kept heaping many other insults on him.

1 Timothy 3:11

Women likewise must be serious, not slanderers, but temperate, faithful in all things.

Titus 2:3

Likewise, tell the older women to be reverent in behavior, not to be slanderers or enslaved to much wine; they are to teach what is good,

Revelation 12:10

Then I heard a loud voice in heaven proclaiming, “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Messiah, for the accuser of our brothers and sisters has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.