Proverbs 10:18

Hiding hatred makes for lying lips, and spreading slander marks a fool. Both concealed hatred and open slander are forms of folly and deceit.

Cross-references · 14

• Prov 26:24–26A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but he harbors evil in his heart.
• Ps 55:21His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.
• 2 Sam 3:27When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
• 2 Sam 13:23–29After two full years, Absalom had sheep shearers in Baal Hazor, which is beside Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king’s sons.
• Ps 15:3He who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;
• 1 Sam 18:29Saul was even more afraid of David; and Saul was David’s enemy continually.
• 2 Sam 20:9–10Joab said to Amasa, “Is it well with you, my brother?” Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.
• Luke 20:20–21They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.
• Ps 5:9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.
• Ps 101:5I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.
• Ps 50:20You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.
• Ps 12:2Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
• 1 Sam 18:21–22Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David, “You shall today be my son-in-law a second time.”
• 2 Sam 11:8–15David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” Uriah departed out of the king’s house, and a gift from the king was sent after him.

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