Psalm 41:7

Victory In Spite Of Betrayal

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And when one comes to see me, he speaks empty words,
While his heart gathers malicious gossip [against me];
When he goes away, he tells it [everywhere].
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All who hate me whisper together about me;
Against me they devise my hurt [imagining the worst for me], saying,
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“A wicked thing is poured out upon him and holds him;
And when he lies down, he will not rise up again.”

Devise Evil

Psalm 31:13

For I have heard the slander and whispering of many,
Terror is on every side;
While they schemed together against me,
They plotted to take away my life.

Psalm 56:5-6

All day long they twist my words and say hurtful things;
All their thoughts are against me for evil.

Proverbs 16:28

A perverse man spreads strife,
And one who gossips separates intimate friends.

Proverbs 26:20

For lack of wood the fire goes out,
And where there is no whisperer [who gossips], contention quiets down.

Matthew 22:15

Then the Pharisees went and conspired together plotting how to trap Him by [distorting] what He said.

Matthew 26:3-4

Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the courtyard of the [elegant home of the Jewish] high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,

Romans 1:29

until they were filled (permeated, saturated) with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice and mean-spiritedness. They are gossips [spreading rumors],

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you not to be as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish—that perhaps there may be strife, jealousy, angry tempers, disputes, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder;