For I am afraid that when I come I may not find you what I wish you to be, and you may not find me what you wish me to be; I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder.

idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions,

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

Don't have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know that they produce quarrels.

For the overseer must be blameless as God's steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not addicted to wine, not violent, not fond of sordid gain,

This you know, my beloved brethren. But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger,

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

What causes quarrels and fights among you? Is it not your passions that are at war in your members?

Clamour

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

Then all the city was aroused, and the people rushed together, and taking hold of Paul they dragged him out of the temple, and immediately the gates were shut.

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

not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.

he is conceited and understands nothing; but he has a morbid interest in controversial questions and disputes about words, which produce envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions,

Evil speaking

They were filled with all manner of wickedness, evil, covetousness, depravity. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips,

The women must likewise be dignified, not malicious gossips, but temperate, faithful in all things.

Besides, they learn to be idle, going about from house to house. And not only do they become idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things they ought not to.

unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,

The older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not to be slanderers or slaves to much wine, but they are to teach what is good,

to speak evil of no one, to be peaceable and gentle, and to show true humility toward all men.

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

Therefore, put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.

and especially those who indulge the flesh in its corrupt desire and despise authority. Bold and willful, they are not afraid to revile the glorious ones,

Yet in the same way these men in their dreamings defile the flesh, reject authority, and revile the glorious ones.

Then 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 brethren has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.

With

They were filled with all manner of wickedness, evil, covetousness, depravity. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips,

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

Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; be infants in evil, but in thinking be mature.

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

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by men and hating one another.

and 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

Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.