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.

Cross-references · 35

• Eph 4:31Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.
• 2 Tim 2:24–25The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle towards all, able to teach, patient,
• Col 3:12–13Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
• Eph 4:2with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;
• 1 Tim 3:3not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;
• 1 Pet 3:10For, “He who would love life, and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit.
• 1 Pet 3:8Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,
• Matt 11:29Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.
• Gal 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
• 1 Pet 2:17–18Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
• Gal 6:10So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.
• 1 Pet 2:1Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
• Jas 4:11Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.
• Jas 3:17But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
• 1 Th 5:14–15We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.
• 2 Sam 22:36You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your gentleness has made me great.
• Jas 1:19–20So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
• Ps 140:11An evil speaker won’t be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
• Gal 6:1Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.
• 1 Tim 3:11Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
• Phil 4:5Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.
• 1 Th 2:7But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
• 1 Cor 9:19For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
• 2 Cor 10:1Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ; I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.
• Acts 23:5Paul said, “I didn’t know, brothers, that he was high priest. For it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’”
• Prov 25:24It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.
• Prov 6:19a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.
• 2 Cor 12:20For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;
• 1 Cor 6:10nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.
• 2 Pet 2:10but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;
• Isa 40:11He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.
• 1 Pet 4:4They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:
• Jude 1:8Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.
• Jude 1:10But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason.
• Prov 19:19A hot-tempered man must pay the penalty, for if you rescue him, you must do it again.

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