Psalm 101:5

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Summary

Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.

Whoso

An high

General references

Bible References

Whoso

He hath not slandered by his tongue, He hath not done to his friend evil; And reproach he hath not lifted up Against his neighbour.

Thou sittest, against thy brother thou speakest, Against a son of thy mother givest slander.

'Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour a false testimony.

'Thou dost not lift up a vain report; thou dost not put thy hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness.

Thou dost not go slandering among thy people; thou dost not stand against the blood of thy neighbour; I am Jehovah.

Whoso is covering hatred with lying lips, And whoso is bringing out an evil report is a fool.

A revealer of secret counsels is the busybody, And for a deceiver with his lips make not thyself surety.

A north wind bringeth forth rain, And a secret tongue -- indignant faces.

Men of slander have been in thee to shed blood, And on the mountains they have eaten in thee, Wickedness they have done in thy midst.

and now, I did write to you not to keep company with him, if any one, being named a brother, may be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner -- with such a one not even to eat together;

Women -- in like manner grave, not false accusers, vigilant, faithful in all things.

aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers,

An high

Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in devices that they devised.

For Thou a poor people savest, And the eyes of the high causest to fall.

For high is Jehovah, and the lowly He seeth, And the haughty from afar He knoweth.

Ye multiply not -- ye speak haughtily -- The old saying goeth out from your mouth, For a God of knowledge is Jehovah, And by Him actions are weighed.

Scatter abroad the wrath of thine anger, And see every proud one, and make him low.

These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven are abominations to His soul.

A generation -- how high are their eyes, Yea, their eyelids are lifted up.

The haughty eyes of man have been humbled, And bowed down hath been the loftiness of men, And set on high hath Jehovah alone been in that day.

Now, I, Nebuchadnezzar, am praising and exalting and honouring the King of the heavens, for all His works are truth, and His paths judgment, and those walking in pride He is able to humble.'

The pride of thy heart hath lifted thee up, O dweller in clifts of a rock, (A high place is his habitation, He is saying in his heart, 'Who doth bring me down to earth?')

I say to you, this one went down declared righteous, to his house, rather than that one: for every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'

In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace;

General references

'Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour a false testimony.

And David saith to Saul, 'Why dost thou hear the words of man, saying, Lo, David is seeking thine evil?

The delight of kings are righteous lips, And whoso is speaking uprightly he loveth,

Cast out a scorner -- and contention goeth out, And strife and shame cease.

A ruler who is attending to lying words, All his ministers are wicked.

A generation -- how high are their eyes, Yea, their eyelids are lifted up.