Leviticus 19:16

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Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.

Their wives in like manner must be grave women, not addicted to scandal, sober, faithful in all things.

unnatural, implacable, slanderers, intemperate, inhuman, averse to goodness,

That the elder women also be sacredly becoming in their behaviour, not slanderers, not enslaved by much wine, teachers of propriety;

WHEREFORE putting far away wickedness of every kind, and all deceit, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all backbitings,

and found none: and though many false witnesses came, they found it not [sufficient]. But at the last two false witnesses stepping forth,

saying, I have sinned, in betraying innocent blood. But they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.

Then they suborned men to say, We heard him speak blasphemous things against Moses, and against God.

Now that I may not be unnecessarily tedious to thee, I entreat thee to hear us briefly with thy wonted candour.