Ecclesiastes 7:22

Catholic Public Domain Version

So then, do not attach your heart to every word that is spoken, lest perhaps you may hear your servant speaking ill of you.

Cross References

1 Kings 2:44

And the king said to Shimei: "You know all the evil, of which your heart is conscious, which you did to David, my father. The Lord has repaid your wickedness upon your own head."

Ecclesiastes 7:21

But there is no just man on earth, who does good and does not sin.

Ecclesiastes 7:23

For your conscience knows that you, too, have repeatedly spoken evil of others.

Matthew 15:19

For from the heart go out evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.

James 3:9

By it we bless God the Father, and by it we speak evil of men, who have been made in the likeness of God.