A talkative man shall not prosper on the earth: evils shall hunt the unrighteous man to destruction.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and blasphemy be removed from you, with all malice.

Likewise their wives must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, not loving what is good,

Older women likewise are to be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teaching what is good,

Therefore having put away all malice, all guile, hypocrisy, envy, and all slanders,

"Judge not, lest you be judged.

For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with what measure you measure, it will be measured [back] to you.

"And judge not, and you shall not be judged. Condemn not, and you shall not be condemned. Forgive, and you shall be forgiven.

Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, everyone who judges, for in whatever you judge another you condemn yourself, for you who judge are practicing the same things.

Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat, and let not him who does not eat judge him who eats; for God [has] received him.

Who are you to judge another's servant? To his own master he stands or he falls. And he shall be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.

But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you despise your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

So then each of us shall give account concerning himself to God.

So then judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who also will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make clear the purposes of the hearts. Then each one's praise shall come from God.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known lust unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."

Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy and righteous and good.

Then has that which is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through that which is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.

But become doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, this [one] is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror;

But the [one] who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues [in it], and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one shall be blessed in what he does.

(for not the hearers of the law are righteous with God, but the doers of the law shall be justified;