Titus 3:2

Believers are to slander no one, avoid quarreling, and be gentle and humble toward all people. It matters because Christian conduct toward outsiders should be peaceable and gracious.

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• Eph 4:31Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
• 2 Tim 2:24–25And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
• Col 3:12–13Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
• Eph 4:2With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
• 1 Tim 3:3Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
• 1 Pet 3:10For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
• 1 Pet 3:8Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
• Matt 11:29Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
• Gal 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
• 1 Pet 2:17–18Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
• Gal 6:10As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
• 1 Pet 2:1Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
• Jas 4:11Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
• Jas 3:17But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
• 1 Th 5:14–15Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.
• 2 Sam 22:36Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath made me great.
• Jas 1:19–20Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
• Ps 140:11Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
• Gal 6:1Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
• 1 Tim 3:11Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
• Phil 4:5Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
• 1 Th 2:7But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
• 1 Cor 9:19For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
• 2 Cor 10:1Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:
• Acts 23:5Then said Paul, I wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest: for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people.
• Prov 25:24It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.
• Prov 6:19A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
• 2 Cor 12:20For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
• 1 Cor 6:10Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
• 2 Pet 2:10But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
• Isa 40:11He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
• 1 Pet 4:4Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
• Jude 1:8Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
• Jude 1:10But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
• Prov 19:19A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again.

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