A perverse man sows strife, and a whisperer separates intimate friends.

Where there is no wood, the fire goes out; and where there is no talebearer, strife ceases.

being filled with every unrighteousness, sexual perversion, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, depravity; whisperers,

For I fear lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you do not wish; lest there be contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, evil speakings, whisperings, conceits, commotions;

For I have heard the slander of many; fear is on every side; while they take counsel together against me, they have plotted to take away my life.

All day long they twist my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.

They stir up strife; they hide themselves; they watch my steps as they lie in wait for my soul.

Then the Pharisees went and plotted how they might entangle Him in His words.

Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people assembled at the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,

and plotted to take Jesus by trickery and kill Him.