Psalms 101:5

David will silence the secret slanderer and reject the proud and arrogant. He refuses to tolerate hidden malice or pride.

Cross-references · 24

• Ps 15:3who has no slander on his tongue, who does no harm to his neighbor, who casts no scorn on his friend,
• Ps 18:27For You save an afflicted people, but You humble those with haughty eyes.
• Luke 18:14I tell you, this man, rather than the Pharisee, went home justified. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
• Ps 50:20You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.
• 1 Cor 5:11But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.
• Titus 2:3Older women, likewise, are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much wine, but teachers of good.
• Obad 1:3–4The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’
• Prov 20:19He who reveals secrets is a constant gossip; avoid the one who babbles with his lips.
• Prov 30:13There is a generation—how haughty are their eyes and pretentious are their glances—
• Dan 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all His works are true and all His ways are just. And He is able to humble those who walk in pride.
• Prov 6:16–19There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to Him:
• 1 Pet 5:5–6Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
• Isa 2:11The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
• Exod 23:1“You shall not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness.
• Job 40:11–12Unleash the fury of your wrath; look on every proud man and bring him low.
• Prov 25:23As the north wind brings forth rain, so a backbiting tongue brings angry looks.
• Ps 138:6Though the LORD is on high, He attends to the lowly; but the proud He knows from afar.
• Exod 20:16You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
• Prov 10:18The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool.
• Ps 10:2–4In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.
• Lev 19:16You must not go about spreading slander among your people. You must not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am the LORD.
• 1 Sam 2:3Do not boast so proudly, or let arrogance come from your mouth, for the LORD is a God who knows, and by Him actions are weighed.
• Ezek 22:9Among you are slanderous men bent on bloodshed; within you are those who eat on the mountain shrines and commit acts of indecency.
• 1 Tim 3:11In the same way, the women must be dignified, not slanderers, but temperate and faithful in all things.

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