“You sit and speak against your brother; You slander your own mother’s son.
Parallel translations
- WEB You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.
- 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.
- NLT You sit around and slander your brother— your own mother’s son.
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Quick answer
They slander even their own brother and their mother's son. They harm those closest to them.
Overview
The hypocrites' evil speech reaches its lowest point in slandering their own family members. Sin against the nearest relationships exposes the depth of their corruption. Such conduct flatly contradicts the love of neighbor that God's law requires and that Christ commands.
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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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