You sit and speak against your brother; You slander your own mother’s son.
“Now brother will deliver up brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.
Whoever hides hatred has lying lips, And whoever spreads slander is a fool.
You shall not go about as a talebearer among your people; nor shall you take a stand against the life of your neighbor: I am the Lord.
Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, “Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down.
“Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake.
Let the lying lips be put to silence, Which speak insolent things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things—
Likewise, their wives must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
And many other things they blasphemously spoke against Him.