Ephesians 4:31

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.

Colossians 3:8

But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.

Colossians 3:19

Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

Proverbs 14:17

A man of quick temper acts foolishly, and a man of evil devices is hated.

Romans 3:14

"Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness."

Ephesians 4:26

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,

James 1:19

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

1 Peter 2:1

So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.

Genesis 4:8

Cain spoke to Abel his brother. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.

Genesis 27:41

Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, "The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob."

Genesis 37:4

But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him.

Genesis 37:21

But when Reuben heard it, he rescued him out of their hands, saying, "Let us not take his life."

Leviticus 19:16-18

You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand up against the life of your neighbor: I am the LORD.

2 Samuel 13:22

But Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad, for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had violated his sister Tamar.

2 Samuel 19:27

He has slandered your servant to my lord the king. But my lord the king is like the angel of God; do therefore what seems good to you.

2 Samuel 19:43-2

And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, "We have ten shares in the king, and in David also we have more than you. Why then did you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of bringing back our king?"But the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

Psalm 15:3

who does not slander with his tongue and does no evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his friend;

Psalm 50:20

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

Psalm 64:3

who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows,

Psalm 101:5

Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly I will destroy. Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart I will not endure.

Psalm 140:11

Let not the slanderer be established in the land; let evil hunt down the violent man speedily!

Proverbs 6:19

a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.

Proverbs 10:12

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

Proverbs 10:18

The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever utters slander is a fool.

Proverbs 18:8

The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.

Proverbs 19:12

A king's wrath is like the growling of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

Proverbs 25:23

The north wind brings forth rain, and a backbiting tongue, angry looks.

Proverbs 26:20

For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases.

Proverbs 26:24-25

Whoever hates disguises himself with his lips and harbors deceit in his heart;

Proverbs 29:9

If a wise man has an argument with a fool, the fool only rages and laughs, and there is no quiet.

Proverbs 29:22

A man of wrath stirs up strife, and one given to anger causes much transgression.

Jeremiah 6:28

They are all stubbornly rebellious, going about with slanders; they are bronze and iron; all of them act corruptly.

Jeremiah 9:4

Let everyone beware of his neighbor, and put no trust in any brother, for every brother is a deceiver, and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.

Acts 19:28-29

When they heard this they were enraged and were crying out, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"

Acts 21:30

Then all the city was stirred up, and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple, and at once the gates were shut.

Acts 22:22-23

Up to this word they listened to him. Then they raised their voices and said, "Away with such a fellow from the earth! For he should not be allowed to live."

Romans 1:29-30

They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,

1 Corinthians 5:8

Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I fear that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish--that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.

Galatians 5:20

idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,

1 Timothy 3:3

not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.

1 Timothy 3:11

Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded, faithful in all things.

1 Timothy 5:13

Besides that, they learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not.

1 Timothy 6:4-5

he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions,

2 Timothy 2:23

Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels.

2 Timothy 3:3

heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,

Titus 1:7

For an overseer,as God's steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain,

Titus 2:3

Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good,

Titus 3:2-3

to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people.

James 3:14-2

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.

James 4:11

Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

2 Peter 2:10-11

and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority. Bold and willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones,

1 John 3:12

We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous.

1 John 3:15

Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

Jude 1:8-10

Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones.

Revelation 12:10

And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Bible References

Bitterness

Psalm 64:3
who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows,
Romans 3:14
"Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness."
Colossians 3:8
But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.
James 3:14
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.

Wrath

Ephesians 4:26
Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,
Proverbs 14:17
A man of quick temper acts foolishly, and a man of evil devices is hated.
Proverbs 19:12
A king's wrath is like the growling of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
Ecclesiastes 7:9
Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.
2 Corinthians 12:20
For I fear that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish--that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.
Galatians 5:20
idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,
Colossians 3:8
But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.
2 Timothy 2:23
Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels.
Titus 1:7
For an overseer,as God's steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain,
James 1:19
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;
James 3:14
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.
James 4:1
What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?

Clamour

2 Samuel 19:43
And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, "We have ten shares in the king, and in David also we have more than you. Why then did you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of bringing back our king?"But the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
2 Samuel 20:1
Now there happened to be there a worthless man, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite. And he blew the trumpet and said, "We have no portion in David, and we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse; every man to his tents, O Israel!"
Proverbs 29:9
If a wise man has an argument with a fool, the fool only rages and laughs, and there is no quiet.
Acts 19:28
When they heard this they were enraged and were crying out, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
Acts 21:30
Then all the city was stirred up, and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple, and at once the gates were shut.
Acts 22:22
Up to this word they listened to him. Then they raised their voices and said, "Away with such a fellow from the earth! For he should not be allowed to live."
1 Timothy 3:3
not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.
1 Timothy 6:4
he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions,

Evil speaking

Leviticus 19:16
You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand up against the life of your neighbor: I am the LORD.
2 Samuel 19:27
He has slandered your servant to my lord the king. But my lord the king is like the angel of God; do therefore what seems good to you.
Psalm 15:3
who does not slander with his tongue and does no evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his friend;
Psalm 50:20
You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.
Psalm 101:5
Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly I will destroy. Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart I will not endure.
Psalm 140:11
Let not the slanderer be established in the land; let evil hunt down the violent man speedily!
Proverbs 6:19
a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.
Proverbs 10:18
The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever utters slander is a fool.
Proverbs 18:8
The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.
Proverbs 25:23
The north wind brings forth rain, and a backbiting tongue, angry looks.
Proverbs 26:20
For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases.
Jeremiah 6:28
They are all stubbornly rebellious, going about with slanders; they are bronze and iron; all of them act corruptly.
Jeremiah 9:4
Let everyone beware of his neighbor, and put no trust in any brother, for every brother is a deceiver, and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.
Romans 1:29
They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,
1 Timothy 3:11
Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded, faithful in all things.
1 Timothy 5:13
Besides that, they learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not.
2 Timothy 3:3
heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,
Titus 2:3
Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good,
Titus 3:2
to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people.
James 4:11
Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
1 Peter 2:1
So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.
2 Peter 2:10
and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority. Bold and willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones,
Jude 1:8
Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones.
Revelation 12:10
And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.

With

Genesis 4:8
Cain spoke to Abel his brother. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.
Genesis 27:41
Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, "The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob."
Genesis 37:4
But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him.
Leviticus 19:17
"You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him.
2 Samuel 13:22
But Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad, for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had violated his sister Tamar.
Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.
Proverbs 26:24
Whoever hates disguises himself with his lips and harbors deceit in his heart;
Ecclesiastes 7:9
Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.
Romans 1:29
They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,
1 Corinthians 5:8
Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
1 Corinthians 14:20
Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
Colossians 3:8
But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.
Titus 3:3
For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.
1 John 3:12
We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous.

General references

Exodus 20:16
"You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Luke 6:36
Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.
1 John 4:11
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

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