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 must be serious too; they must not be slanderers but temperate and absolutely trustworthy.

callous, relentless, scurrilous, dissolute, and savage; they will hate goodness,

Tell the older women also to be reverent in their demeanour and not to be slanderers or slaves to drink;

So off with all malice, all guile and insincerity and envy and slander of every kind!

but they could find none, although a number of false witnesses came forward. However, two men came forward at last

saying, "I did wrong in betraying innocent blood." "What does that matter to us?" they said, "it is your affair, not ours!"

They then instigated people to say, "We have heard him talking blasphemy against Moses and God."

I have no wish to weary you, but I beg of you to grant us in your courtesy a brief hearing.