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 who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;
• Ps 18:27For you will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes you will bring down.
• Luke 18:14I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
• Ps 50:20You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.
• 1 Cor 5:11But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.
• Titus 2:3and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;
• Obad 1:3–4The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’
• Prov 20:19He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.
• Prov 30:13There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.
• Dan 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
• Prov 6:16–19There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:
• 1 Pet 5:5–6Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
• Isa 2:11The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the haughtiness of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.
• Exod 23:1“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
• Job 40:11–12Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.
• Prov 25:23The north wind produces rain; so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.
• Ps 138:6For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but the proud, he knows from afar.
• Exod 20:16“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
• Prov 10:18He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.
• Ps 10:2–4In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.
• Lev 19:16“‘You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people. “‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.
• 1 Sam 2:3“Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, For Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.
• Ezek 22:9Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.
• 1 Tim 3:11Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

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