who sharpen their tongue like a sword. They have bent their bows to shoot their arrows; even bitter words,

whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth.

Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter towards them.

But if you have bitter envy and contention in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.

This wisdom does not come down from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic.

Be angry, but do not sin: do not let the sun go down on your wrath,

One who is short-tempered acts foolishly, and a man of wicked devices is hated.

The king's wrath is like the roaring of a lion; but his favor is like dew on the grass.

Do not be hasty in your spirit to be angry; for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

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;

idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies,

But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth.

But avoid foolish and unlearned questionings, knowing that they generate strife.

For an overseer must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not prone to anger, not given to wine, not quarrelsome, not greedy for money,

So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;

But if you have bitter envy and contention in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.

For where envy and contention exist, there is confusion and every evil deed.

Moreover the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

Where do wars and fightings come from among you? Do they not come from your lusts that war in your members?

You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask.

And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king; therefore we also have more in David than you. Why then have you despised us; were we not the first to speak of bringing back our king? Yet the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

And there met them there a man of worthlessness, whose name was Sheba the son of Bichri, a Benjamite. And he blew a shofar, and said: We have no part in David, nor do we have inheritance in the son of Jesse; every man to his tents, O Israel!

So every man of Israel withdrew from David, and followed after Sheba the son of Bichri. But the men of Judah, from the Jordan as far as Jerusalem, stayed close to their king.

If a wise man contends with a foolish man, whether he rages or laughs, there is no rest.

An angry man stirs up strife, and a furious man abounds in transgression.

Now when they heard this, they were full of anger and cried out, saying, Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!

So the whole city was filled with confusion, and rushed into the theater with one accord, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians, Paul's travel companions.

And all the city was in a commotion; and the people ran together, seized Paul, and dragged him out of the temple; and immediately the doors were shut.

And they listened to him until this word, and then they raised their voices and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth, for he is not fit to live!

Then, as they cried out and tore off their clothes and threw dust into the air,

not a drunkard, not violent, not greedy for money, but fair-minded, not quarrelsome, not loving money;

he is proud, understanding nothing, but is sick with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, slander, evil conjecture,

useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. From such withdraw yourself.

You shall not go about as a talebearer among your people; nor shall you take a stand against the blood of your neighbor: I am Jehovah.

And he has slandered your servant to my lord the king, but my lord the king is like the angel of God. Therefore do what is good in your eyes.

he who does not backbite with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his friend;

You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.

Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, I will annihilate; the one who has a haughty look and a proud heart, I will not endure.

Let not a man who speaks evil be established in the earth; evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

a false witness who breathes lies, and he who spreads strife among brothers.

He who hides hatred with lying lips, and he who sends out a slander, is a fool.

The words of a talebearer are gulped down, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

The north wind wrings out rain; so does an angry face a slanderous tongue.

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

They all stubbornly rebel, walking in slanders; they are bronze and iron; they are all corrupters.

Everyone beware of his neighbor, and do not trust any brother! For every brother will supplant and assail his neighbor, and will walk with slanderers.

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

defamers, haters of God, insolent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

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

And besides they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house, and not only idle but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

without natural affection, unyielding, slanderers, without self-control, savage, despisers of good,

the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

to speak evil of no one, not being a brawler, but fair, showing all meekness to all men.

Do not speak against one another, brethren. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the Law and judges the Law. But if you judge the Law, you are not a doer of the Law, but a judge.

Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking,

and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. They are presumptuous, self-willed. They are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries.

Whereas angels, who are greater in power and might, do not bring a reviling accusation against them before the Lord.

Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, despise rulership, and speak evil of dignitaries.

But these speak evil of things they do not know; and whatever they understand naturally, like animals without reason, in these things they corrupt themselves.

And I heard a loud voice saying in Heaven, Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down.

Now Cain talked with Abel his brother; and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.

And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.

But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him.

But Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands, and said, Let us not smite his soul.

You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall reprove to correct your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am Jehovah.

And Absalom spoke to his brother Amnon neither good nor bad. For Absalom hated Amnon, because he had humbled his sister Tamar.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all transgressions.

He who hates, disguises it with his lips, and lays up deceit within himself.

When he speaks graciously, do not believe him; for there are seven abominations in his heart.

Do not be hasty in your spirit to be angry; for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

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

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Brethren, do not be children in understanding; however, in malice be infants, but in understanding be mature.

But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth.

For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, led astray, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.

not as Cain who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother's righteous.

Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.