You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.
Parallel translations
- KJV Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.
- BSB You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.
- NKJV You sit and speak against your brother; You slander your own mother’s son.
- NASB “You sit and speak against your brother; You slander your own mother’s son.
- NLT You sit around and slander your brother— your own mother’s son.
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Cross-references · 9
- Matt 10:21“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.
- 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.
- Prov 10:18He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.
- Matt 5:11“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
- Ps 31:18Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
- Rev 12:10I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ has come; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.
- Titus 2:3and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;
- 1 Tim 3:11Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
- Luke 22:65They spoke many other things against him, insulting him.
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