All who hate me whisper together against me. Against me they devise my hurt.
A perverse man scatters abroad strife, and a whisperer separates chief friends.
For I fear lest somehow, having come, I may find you not such as I want, and I may be found by you such as ye do not want, lest somehow there be strifes, envyings, wraths, selfish ambitions, slanderings, whisperings, puffings up, t
having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity;
Then the Pharisees having departed, they took counsel how they might trap him in his talk.
For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, contention ceases.
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.