Biblical Concept: Slander
Findings:
Relationship: tongue, slander.
Family slander.
“he who spreads slander is a fool”
“Do not slander a slave to his master”
NAS Isaiah 32:7 As for a rogue, his weapons are evil; He devises
wicked schemes To destroy the afflicted
with slander, Even
though the needy one speaks what is
right.
“out of the heart of men”: slander
NAS Ephesians 4:31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor
and slander be put away from you,
along with all malice.
NAS Colossians 3:8 But now you also, put them all aside: anger,
wrath, malice, slander, and abusive
speech from your mouth.
NAS 1 Peter 2:1 Therefore, putting aside all malice and all guile
and hypocrisy and envy and all slander,
Slander versus glorify.
Day of Visitation: Slander versus glorify.
Day of Visitation: Slander control.
“slandered your servant to my lord the king”
“They slandered me without ceasing”
“when we are slandered, we try to conciliate”
Spiritual goal: “when we are slandered, we try to conciliate.”
“why am I slandered concerning that for which I give thanks?”
NAS 1 Peter 3:16 and keep a good conscience so that in the thing
in which you are slandered, those who
revile your good behavior in
Christ may be put to shame.
Sanctified spiritual idealism regarding slander.
Israel: “You shall not go about as a slanderer among your people”
Sanctified spiritual idealism: “May a slanderer not be established in the
earth.”
“a slanderer separates intimate friends”
Slander, gossip, relationship.
“He who goes about as a slanderer reveals secrets”
Israel of Jeremiah’s day: “every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.”
Relationship: Slanderers, haters of God.
Israel, slanderous men, relationship.
Paul: Slandered.
David: Slandered.
King David: “Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him I will destroy.”
Sanctified Spiritual Idealism: “Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him
I will destroy.”
Sin nature: slanders.
Heart slanders.
Sin: slanders.
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Slander
NAS Psalm 15:3 He does not slander with his tongue, Nor does evil to his neighbor, Nor takes up a reproach
against his friend; (Relationship: tongue, slander.)
NAS Psalm 31:13 For I have heard the slander of many, Terror is
on every side; While they took counsel together against me, They
schemed to take away my life. (David: Slandered.)
NAS Psalm 50:20 "You sit and speak against your brother; You
slander your own mother's son. (Family slander.)
NAS Proverbs 10:18 He who conceals hatred has lying lips, And he who spreads slander
is a fool. (“he who spreads slander is a fool”)
NAS Proverbs 30:10 Do not slander a slave to his master, Lest he curse you and you be found guilty. (“Do not slander
a slave to his master”)
NAS Isaiah 32:7 As for a rogue, his weapons are evil; He devises
wicked schemes To destroy the afflicted with slander, Even though the needy one speaks what is right. (All)
NAS Mark 7:22 deeds of coveting and wickedness, as well as deceit,
sensuality, envy, slander, pride and foolishness.
(“out of the heart of men”: slander)
NAS Ephesians 4:31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor
and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. (All)
NAS Colossians 3:8 But now you also, put them all aside: anger,
wrath, malice, slander, and abusive
speech from your mouth. (All)
NAS 1 Peter 2:1 Therefore, putting aside all malice and all guile
and hypocrisy and envy and all slander, (All)
12 Keep your behavior
excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as
evildoers, they may on account of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the day of
visitation. (Slander versus glorify.) (Day of Visitation: Slander versus
glorify.) (Day of Visitation: Slander control.) (Note 1 Peter 3:16 below.)
Slandered
NAS 2 Samuel 19:27 "Moreover, he has slandered your servant to
my lord the king; but my lord the king is like the angel of God, therefore do
what is good in your sight. (“slandered your servant to my lord the king”)
NAS Psalm 35:15 But at my stumbling they rejoiced, and gathered
themselves together; The smiters whom I did not know
gathered together against me, They slandered me
without ceasing. (“They slandered me without ceasing”)
NAS 1 Corinthians 4:13 when we are slandered, we try to conciliate; we
have become as the scum of the world, the dregs of all things, even until now. (“when we are slandered,
we try to conciliate”) (Spiritual goal: “when we are slandered, we try to
conciliate.”)
NAS 1 Corinthians 10:30 If I partake with thankfulness, why am I
slandered concerning that for which I give thanks? (“why am I slandered
concerning that for which I give thanks?”)
NAS 1 Peter 3:16 and keep a good conscience so that in the thing
in which you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may
be put to shame. (All) (Sanctified spiritual idealism regarding slander.)
Slanderer
NAS Leviticus 19:16 'You shall not go about as a slanderer among your
people, and you are not to act against the life of your neighbor; I am the
LORD. (Israel: “You shall not go about as a slanderer among your people”)
NAS Psalm 140:11 "May a slanderer not be established in the
earth; May evil hunt the violent man speedily." (Sanctified spiritual
idealism: “May a slanderer not be established in the earth.”)
NAS Proverbs 16:28 A perverse man spreads strife, And
a slanderer separates intimate friends. (“a slanderer separates intimate
friends”)
NAS Proverbs 20:19 He who goes about as a slanderer reveals secrets,
Therefore do not associate with a gossip. (Slander,
gossip, relationship.) (“He who goes about as a slanderer reveals secrets”)
NAS Jeremiah 9:4 "Let everyone be on guard against his
neighbor, And do not trust any brother; Because every
brother deals craftily, And every neighbor goes about as a slanderer. (Israel
of Jeremiah’s day: “every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.”)
Slanderers
NAS Romans 1:30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant,
boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, (Relationship: Slanderers,
haters of God.)
Slanderous
NAS Ezekiel 22:9 "Slanderous men have been in you for the
purpose of shedding blood, and in you they have eaten at the mountain shrines. In your midst they have
committed acts of lewdness. (Israel, slanderous men, relationship.)
Slanderously
NAS Romans 3:8 And why not say
(as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say), "Let
us do evil that good may come "? Their condemnation is just. (Paul:
Slandered.)
Slanders
NAS Psalm 101:5 Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him I
will destroy; No one who has a haughty look and an arrogant heart will I
endure. (King David: “Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him I will
destroy.”) (Sanctified Spiritual Idealism: “Whoever secretly slanders his
neighbor, him I will destroy.”)
NAS Matthew 15:19 "For out of the heart come evil thoughts,
murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders. (Sin
nature: slanders.) (Heart slanders.)
NAS 2 Corinthians 12:20 For I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may
find you to be not what I wish and may be found by you to be not what you wish;
that perhaps there may be strife,
jealousy, angry tempers, disputes, slanders, gossip, arrogance, disturbances;
(Sin: slanders.)