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 15:3He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
• Ps 18:27For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
• Luke 18:14I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
• Ps 50:20Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.
• 1 Cor 5:11But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
• Titus 2:3The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
• Obad 1:3–4The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?
• Prov 20:19He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
• Prov 30:13There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
• Dan 4:37Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
• Prov 6:16–19These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
• 1 Pet 5:5–6Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
• Isa 2:11The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
• Exod 23:1Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
• Job 40:11–12Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.
• Prov 25:23The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
• Ps 138:6Though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.
• Exod 20:16Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
• Prov 10:18He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
• Ps 10:2–4The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
• Lev 19:16Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.
• 1 Sam 2:3Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
• Ezek 22:9In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.
• 1 Tim 3:11Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

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