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#### Shorter Catechism
<span class="q">Q 78.</span> What is forbidden in the ninth commandment?
<span class="q">A.</span> The ninth commandment forbiddeth whatsoever is prejudicial to truth, or injurious to our own, or our neighbor's, good name.[^fnref:wsc1]
[^fnref:wsc1]: <div class="esv"><h5>Leviticus 19:16</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p03019016.01-1">You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand up against the life of your neighbor: I am the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>.</p> </div><h5>Psalm 15:3</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19015003.01-2">who does not slander with his tongue<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and does no evil to his neighbor,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>nor takes up a reproach against his friend;</p> </div> </div><h5>Proverbs 6:16-19</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p20006016.01-3">There are six things that the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> hates,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>seven that are an abomination to him:<br /> haughty eyes, a lying tongue,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and hands that shed innocent blood,<br /> a heart that devises wicked plans,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>feet that make haste to run to evil,<br /> a false witness who breathes out lies,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and one who sows discord among brothers.</p> </div> </div><h5>Luke 3:14</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p42003014.01-4">Soldiers also asked him, “And we, what shall we do?” And he said to them, “Do not extort money from anyone by threats or by false accusation, and be content with your wages.” (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
#### Larger Catechism
<span class="q">Q 145.</span> What are the sins forbidden in the ninth commandment?
<span class="q">A.</span> The sins forbidden in the ninth commandment are, all prejudicing the truth, and the good name of our neighbors, as well as our own,[^fnref:wlc1] especially in public judicature;[^fnref:wlc2] giving false evidence,[^fnref:wlc3] suborning false witnesses,[^fnref:wlc4] wittingly appearing and pleading for an evil cause, outfacing and overbearing the truth;[^fnref:wlc5] passing unjust sentence,[^fnref:wlc6] calling evil good, and good evil; rewarding the wicked according to the work of the righteous, and the righteous according to the work of the wicked;[^fnref:wlc7] forgery,[^fnref:wlc8] concealing the truth, undue silence in a just cause,[^fnref:wlc9] and holding our peace when iniquity calleth for either a reproof from ourselves,[^fnref:wlc10] or complaint to others;[^fnref:wlc11] speaking the truth unseasonably,[^fnref:wlc12] or maliciously to a wrong end,[^fnref:wlc13] or perverting it to a wrong meaning,[^fnref:wlc14] or in doubtful and equivocal expressions, to the prejudice of truth or justice;[^fnref:wlc15] speaking untruth,[^fnref:wlc16] lying,[^fnref:wlc17] slandering,[^fnref:wlc18] backbiting,[^fnref:wlc19] detracting,[^fnref:wlc20] talebearing,[^fnref:wlc21] whispering,[^fnref:wlc22] scoffing,[^fnref:wlc23] reviling,[^fnref:wlc24] rash,[^fnref:wlc25] harsh,[^fnref:wlc26] and partial censuring;[^fnref:wlc27] misconstructing intentions, words, and actions;[^fnref:wlc28] flattering,[^fnref:wlc29] vainglorious boasting;[^fnref:wlc30] thinking or speaking too highly or too meanly of ourselves or others;[^fnref:wlc31] denying the gifts and graces of God;[^fnref:wlc32] aggravating smaller faults;[^fnref:wlc33] hiding, excusing, or extenuating of sins, when called to a free confession;[^fnref:wlc34] unnecessary discovering of infirmities;[^fnref:wlc35] raising false rumors,[^fnref:wlc36] receiving and countenancing evil reports,[^fnref:wlc37] and stopping our ears against just defense;[^fnref:wlc38] evil suspicion;[^fnref:wlc39] envying or grieving at the deserved credit of any,[^fnref:wlc40] endeavoring or desiring to impair it,[^fnref:wlc41] rejoicing in their disgrace and infamy;[^fnref:wlc42] scornful contempt,[^fnref:wlc43] fond admiration;[^fnref:wlc44] breach of lawful promises;[^fnref:wlc45] neglecting such things as are of good report,[^fnref:wlc46] and practicing, or not avoiding ourselves, or not hindering what we can in others, such things as procure an ill name.[^fnref:wlc47]
[^fnref:wlc1]: <div class="esv"><h5>Luke 3:14</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p42003014.01-1">Soldiers also asked him, “And we, what shall we do?” And he said to them, “Do not extort money from anyone by threats or by false accusation, and be content with your wages.”</p> </div><h5>1 Samuel 17:28</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p09017028.01-2">Now Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men. And Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your presumption and the evil of your heart, for you have come down to see the battle.”</p> </div><h5>2 Samuel 16:3</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p10016003.01-3">And the king said, “And where is your master's son?” Ziba said to the king, “Behold, he remains in Jerusalem, for he said, ‘Today the house of Israel will give me back the kingdom of my father.’”</p> </div><h5>2 Samuel 1:9-10</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p10001009.01-4">And he said to me ‘Stand beside me and kill me, for anguish has seized me, and yet my life still lingers.’ So I stood beside him and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live after he had fallen. And I took the crown that was on his head and the armlet that was on his arm, and I have brought them here to my lord.”</p> </div><h5>2 Samuel 1:15-16</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p10001015.01-5">Then David called one of the young men and said, “Go, execute him.” And he struck him down so that he died. And David said to him, “Your blood be on your head, for your own mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have killed the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>'s anointed.’” (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc2]: <div class="esv"><h5>Leviticus 19:15</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p03019015.01-1">“You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.</p> </div><h5>Habakkuk 1:4</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p35001004.01-2">So the law is paralyzed,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and justice never goes forth.<br /> For the wicked surround the righteous;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>so justice goes forth perverted. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc3]: <div class="esv"><h5>Proverbs 19:5</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p20019005.01-1">A false witness will not go unpunished,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and he who breathes out lies will not escape.</p> </div> </div><h5>Proverbs 6:16</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p20006016.01-2">There are six things that the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> hates,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>seven that are an abomination to him: (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc4]: <div class="esv"><h5>Acts 6:13</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p44006013.01-1">and they set up false witnesses who said, “This man never ceases to speak words against this holy place and the law, (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc5]: <div class="esv"><h5>Jeremiah 9:3</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p24009003.01-1">They bend their tongue like a bow;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land;<br /> for they proceed from evil to evil,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and they do not know me, declares the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>.</p> </div> </div><h5>Jeremiah 9:5</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p24009005.01-2">Everyone deceives his neighbor,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and no one speaks the truth;<br /> they have taught their tongue to speak lies;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>they weary themselves committing iniquity.</p> </div> </div><h5>Psalm 12:3-4</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19012003.01-3">May the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> cut off all flattering lips,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>the tongue that makes great boasts,<br /> those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>our lips are with us; who is master over us?”</p> </div> </div><h5>Acts 24:2</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p44024002.01-4">And when he had been summoned, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying:</p> <p id="p44024002.13-4">“Since through you we enjoy much peace, and since by your foresight, most excellent Felix, reforms are being made for this nation,</p> </div><h5>Acts 24:5</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p44024005.01-5">For we have found this man a plague, one who stirs up riots among all the Jews throughout the world and is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.</p> </div><h5>Psalm 52:1-4</h5> <div class="esv-text"> <div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19052001.30-6"><span class="chapter-num" id="v19052001-6">52:1 </span>Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man?<br /> <span class="indent"></span>The steadfast love of God endures all the day.<br /> Your tongue plots destruction,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.<br /> You love evil more than good,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and lying more than speaking what is right. <span class="selah">Selah</span><br /> You love all words that devour,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>O deceitful tongue. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc6]: <div class="esv"><h5>Proverbs 17:15</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p20017015.01-1">He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous<br /> <span class="indent"></span>are both alike an abomination to the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>.</p> </div> </div><h5>1 Kings 21:9-14</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p11021009.01-2">And she wrote in the letters, “Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth at the head of the people. And set two worthless men opposite him, and let them bring a charge against him, saying, ‘You have cursed God and the king.’ Then take him out and stone him to death.” And the men of his city, the elders and the leaders who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had sent word to them. As it was written in the letters that she had sent to them, they proclaimed a fast and set Naboth at the head of the people. And the two worthless men came in and sat opposite him. And the worthless men brought a charge against Naboth in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king.” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death with stones. Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned; he is dead.” (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc7]: <div class="esv"><h5>Isaiah 5:23</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p23005023.01-1">who acquit the guilty for a bribe,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and deprive the innocent of his right! (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc8]: <div class="esv"><h5>1 Kings 21:8</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p11021008.01-1">So she wrote letters in Ahab's name and sealed them with his seal, and she sent the letters to the elders and the leaders who lived with Naboth in his city. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc9]: <div class="esv"><h5>Leviticus 5:1</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p03005001.01-1"><span class="chapter-num" id="v03005001-1">5:1 </span>“If anyone sins in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, and though he is a witness, whether he has seen or come to know the matter, yet does not speak, he shall bear his iniquity;</p> </div><h5>Acts 5:3</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p44005003.01-2">But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land?</p> </div><h5>Acts 5:8-9</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p44005008.01-3">And Peter said to her, “Tell me whether you sold the land for so much.” And she said, “Yes, for so much.” But Peter said to her, “How is it that you have agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”</p> </div><h5>Deuteronomy 13:8</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p05013008.01-4">you shall not yield to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him.</p> </div><h5>2 Timothy 4:16</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p55004016.01-5">At my first defense no one came to stand by me, but all deserted me. May it not be charged against them! (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc10]: <div class="esv"><h5>1 Kings 1:6</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p11001006.01-1">His father had never at any time displeased him by asking, “Why have you done thus and so?” He was also a very handsome man, and he was born next after Absalom.</p> </div><h5>Leviticus 19:17</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p03019017.01-2">“You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc11]: <div class="esv"><h5>Isaiah 59:4</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p23059004.01-1">No one enters suit justly;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>no one goes to law honestly;<br /> they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc12]: <div class="esv"><h5>Proverbs 29:11</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p20029011.01-1">A fool gives full vent to his spirit,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>but a wise man quietly holds it back. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc13]: <div class="esv"><h5>1 Samuel 22:9-10</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p09022009.01-1">Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, and he inquired of the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> for him and gave him provisions and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”</p> </div><h5>Psalm 52:1-5</h5> <div class="esv-text"> <div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19052001.30-2"><span class="chapter-num" id="v19052001-2">52:1 </span>Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man?<br /> <span class="indent"></span>The steadfast love of God endures all the day.<br /> Your tongue plots destruction,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.<br /> You love evil more than good,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and lying more than speaking what is right. <span class="selah">Selah</span><br /> You love all words that devour,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>O deceitful tongue.</p> <p class="line-group" id="p19052005.01-2">But God will break you down forever;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>he will snatch and tear you from your tent;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>he will uproot you from the land of the living. <span class="selah">Selah</span> (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc14]: <div class="esv"><h5>Psalm 56:5</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19056005.01-1">All day long they injure my cause;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>all their thoughts are against me for evil.</p> </div> </div><h5>Matthew 26:60-61</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p40026060.01-2">but they found none, though many false witnesses came forward. At last two came forward and said, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to rebuild it in three days.’”</p> </div><h5>John 2:19</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p43002019.01-3">Jesus answered them, <span class="woc">“Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”</span> (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc15]: <div class="esv"><h5>Genesis 3:5</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p01003005.01-1">For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”</p> </div><h5>Genesis 26:7</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p01026007.01-2">When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” for he feared to say, “My wife,” thinking, “lest the men of the place should kill me because of Rebekah,” because she was attractive in appearance.</p> </div><h5>Genesis 26:9</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p01026009.01-3">So Abimelech called Isaac and said, “Behold, she is your wife. How then could you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac said to him, “Because I thought, ‘Lest I die because of her.’” (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc16]: <div class="esv"><h5>Isaiah 59:13</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p23059013.01-1">transgressing, and denying the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and turning back from following our God,<br /> speaking oppression and revolt,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc17]: <div class="esv"><h5>Colossians 3:9</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p51003009.01-1">Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices</p> </div><h5>Leviticus 19:11</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p03019011.01-2">“You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; you shall not lie to one another. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc18]: <div class="esv"><h5>Psalm 50:20</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19050020.01-1">You sit and speak against your brother;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>you slander your own mother's son. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc19]: <div class="esv"><h5>Psalm 15:3</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19015003.01-1">who does not slander with his tongue<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and does no evil to his neighbor,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>nor takes up a reproach against his friend; (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc20]: <div class="esv"><h5>James 4:11</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p59004011.01-1">Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.</p> </div><h5>Jeremiah 38:4</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p24038004.01-2">Then the officials said to the king, “Let this man be put to death, for he is weakening the hands of the soldiers who are left in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking such words to them. For this man is not seeking the welfare of this people, but their harm.” (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc21]: <div class="esv"><h5>Leviticus 19:16</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p03019016.01-1">You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand up against the life of your neighbor: I am the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc22]: <div class="esv"><h5>Romans 1:29-30</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p45001029.01-1">They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc23]: <div class="esv"><h5>Genesis 21:9</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p01021009.01-1">But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, laughing.</p> </div><h5>Galatians 4:29</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p48004029.01-2">But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc24]: <div class="esv"><h5>1 Corinthians 6:10</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p46006010.01-1">nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc25]: <div class="esv"><h5>Matthew 7:1</h5> <div class="esv-text"> <p id="p40007001.03-1"><span class="chapter-num" id="v40007001-1">7:1 </span><span class="woc">“Judge not, that you be not judged.</span> (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc26]: <div class="esv"><h5>Acts 28:4</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p44028004.01-1">When the native people saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer. Though he has escaped from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”</p> </div><h5>James 2:13</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p59002013.01-2">For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc27]: <div class="esv"><h5>Genesis 38:24</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p01038024.01-1">About three months later Judah was told, “Tamar your daughter-in-law has been immoral. Moreover, she is pregnant by immorality.” And Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burned.”</p> </div><h5>Romans 2:1</h5> <div class="esv-text"> <p id="p45002001.04-2"><span class="chapter-num" id="v45002001-2">2:1 </span>Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc28]: <div class="esv"><h5>Romans 3:8</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p45003008.01-1">And why not do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.</p> </div><h5>Psalm 69:10</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19069010.01-2">When I wept and humbled my soul with fasting,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>it became my reproach.</p> </div> </div><h5>Nehemiah 6:6-8</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p16006006.01-3">In it was written, “It is reported among the nations, and Geshem also says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel; that is why you are building the wall. And according to these reports you wish to become their king. And you have also set up prophets to proclaim concerning you in Jerusalem, ‘There is a king in Judah.’ And now the king will hear of these reports. So now come and let us take counsel together.” Then I sent to him, saying, “No such things as you say have been done, for you are inventing them out of your own mind.”</p> </div><h5>1 Samuel 1:13-15</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p09001013.01-4">Hannah was speaking in her heart; only her lips moved, and her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli took her to be a drunken woman. And Eli said to her, “How long will you go on being drunk? Put your wine away from you.” But Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman troubled in spirit. I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I have been pouring out my soul before the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>.</p> </div><h5>2 Samuel 10:3</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p10010003.01-5">But the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun their lord, “Do you think, because David has sent comforters to you, that he is honoring your father? Has not David sent his servants to you to search the city and to spy it out and to overthrow it?” (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc29]: <div class="esv"><h5>Psalm 12:2-3</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19012002.01-1">Everyone utters lies to his neighbor;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.</p> <p class="line-group" id="p19012003.01-1">May the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> cut off all flattering lips,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>the tongue that makes great boasts, (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc30]: <div class="esv"><h5>2 Timothy 3:2</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p55003002.01-1">For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc31]: <div class="esv"><h5>Luke 18:9</h5> <div class="esv-text"> <p id="p42018009.07-1">He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt:</p> </div><h5>Luke 18:11</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p42018011.01-2"><span class="woc">The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.</span></p> </div><h5>Acts 12:22</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p44012022.01-3">And the people were shouting, “The voice of a god, and not of a man!”</p> </div><h5>Exodus 4:10-14</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p02004010.01-4">But Moses said to the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>, “Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and of tongue.” Then the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> said to him, “Who has made man's mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>? Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak.” But he said, “Oh, my Lord, please send someone else.” Then the anger of the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> was kindled against Moses and he said, “Is there not Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Behold, he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.</p> </div><h5>Romans 12:16</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p45012016.01-5">Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.</p> </div><h5>Galatians 5:26</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p48005026.01-6">Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.</p> </div><h5>1 Corinthians 4:6</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p46004006.01-7">I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc32]: <div class="esv"><h5>Luke 9:49-50</h5> <div class="esv-text"> <p id="p42009049.08-1">John answered, “Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he does not follow with us.” But Jesus said to him, <span class="woc">“Do not stop him, for the one who is not against you is for you.”</span></p> </div><h5>2 Corinthians 10:10</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p47010010.01-2">For they say, “His letters are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.”</p> </div><h5>Acts 2:13</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p44002013.01-3">But others mocking said, “They are filled with new wine.”</p> </div><h5>Job 27:5-6</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p18027005.01-4">Far be it from me to say that you are right;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.<br /> I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.</p> </div> </div><h5>Job 4:6</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p18004006.01-5">Is not your fear of God your confidence,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and the integrity of your ways your hope? (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc33]: <div class="esv"><h5>Matthew 7:3-5</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p40007003.01-1"><span class="woc">Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?</span> <span class="woc">Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye?</span> <span class="woc">You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.</span> (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc34]: <div class="esv"><h5>Proverbs 28:13</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p20028013.01-1">Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.</p> </div> </div><h5>Genesis 3:12-13</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p01003012.01-2">The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.” Then the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”</p> </div><h5>Proverbs 30:20</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p20030020.01-3">This is the way of an adulteress:<br /> <span class="indent"></span>she eats and wipes her mouth<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and says, “I have done no wrong.”</p> </div> </div><h5>Jeremiah 2:35</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p24002035.01-4">you say, ‘I am innocent;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>surely his anger has turned from me.’<br /> Behold, I will bring you to judgment<br /> <span class="indent"></span>for saying, ‘I have not sinned.’</p> </div> </div><h5>2 Kings 5:25</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p12005025.01-5">He went in and stood before his master, and Elisha said to him, “Where have you been, Gehazi?” And he said, “Your servant went nowhere.”</p> </div><h5>Genesis 4:9</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p01004009.01-6">Then the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” He said, “I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?” (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc35]: <div class="esv"><h5>Proverbs 25:9-10</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p20025009.01-1">Argue your case with your neighbor himself,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and do not reveal another's secret,<br /> lest he who hears you bring shame upon you,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and your ill repute have no end.</p> </div> </div><h5>Genesis 9:22</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p01009022.01-2">And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc36]: <div class="esv"><h5>Exodus 23:1</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p02023001.01-1"><span class="chapter-num" id="v02023001-1">23:1 </span>“You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc37]: <div class="esv"><h5>Proverbs 29:12</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p20029012.01-1">If a ruler listens to falsehood,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>all his officials will be wicked.</p> </div> </div><h5>Psalm 41:7-8</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19041007.01-2">All who hate me whisper together about me;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>they imagine the worst for me.</p> <p class="line-group" id="p19041008.01-2">They say, “A deadly thing is poured out on him;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>he will not rise again from where he lies.” (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc38]: <div class="esv"><h5>Acts 7:56-57</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p44007056.01-1">And he said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.” But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears and rushed together at him.</p> </div><h5>Job 31:13-14</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p18031013.01-2">“If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>when they brought a complaint against me,<br /> what then shall I do when God rises up?<br /> <span class="indent"></span>When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him? (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc39]: <div class="esv"><h5>1 Corinthians 13:5</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p46013005.01-1">or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;</p> </div><h5>1 Timothy 6:4</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p54006004.01-2">he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc40]: <div class="esv"><h5>Matthew 21:15</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p40021015.01-1">But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant,</p> </div><h5>Numbers 11:29</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p04011029.01-2">But Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>'s people were prophets, that the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> would put his Spirit on them!” (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc41]: <div class="esv"><h5>Ezra 4:12-13</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p15004012.01-1">be it known to the king that the Jews who came up from you to us have gone to Jerusalem. They are rebuilding that rebellious and wicked city. They are finishing the walls and repairing the foundations. Now be it known to the king that if this city is rebuilt and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and the royal revenue will be impaired.</p> </div><h5>Daniel 6:3-4</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p27006003.01-2">Then this Daniel became distinguished above all the other presidents and satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him. And the king planned to set him over the whole kingdom. Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find a ground for complaint against Daniel with regard to the kingdom, but they could find no ground for complaint or any fault, because he was faithful, and no error or fault was found in him. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc42]: <div class="esv"><h5>Jeremiah 48:27</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p24048027.01-1">Was not Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves, that whenever you spoke of him you wagged your head? (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc43]: <div class="esv"><h5>Matthew 27:28-29</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p40027028.01-1">And they stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on his head and put a reed in his right hand. And kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”</p> </div><h5>Psalm 35:15-16</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19035015.01-2">But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>they gathered together against me;<br /> wretches whom I did not know<br /> <span class="indent"></span>tore at me without ceasing;<br /> like profane mockers at a feast,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>they gnash at me with their teeth.</p> </div> </div><h5>Psalm 35:21</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19035021.01-3">They open wide their mouths against me;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>they say, “Aha, Aha!<br /> <span class="indent"></span>Our eyes have seen it!” (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc44]: <div class="esv"><h5>Jude 1:16</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p65001016.01-1">These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain advantage.</p> </div><h5>Acts 12:22</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p44012022.01-2">And the people were shouting, “The voice of a god, and not of a man!” (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc45]: <div class="esv"><h5>Romans 1:31</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p45001031.01-1">foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.</p> </div><h5>2 Timothy 3:3</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p55003003.01-2">heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc46]: <div class="esv"><h5>1 Samuel 2:24</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p09002024.01-1">No, my sons; it is no good report that I hear the people of the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> spreading abroad. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc47]: <div class="esv"><h5>2 Samuel 13:12-13</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p10013012.01-1">She answered him, “No, my brother, do not violate me, for such a thing is not done in Israel; do not do this outrageous thing. As for me, where could I carry my shame? And as for you, you would be as one of the outrageous fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.”</p> </div><h5>Proverbs 5:8-9</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p20005008.01-2">Keep your way far from her,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and do not go near the door of her house,<br /> lest you give your honor to others<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and your years to the merciless,</p> </div> </div><h5>Proverbs 6:33</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p20006033.01-3">He will get wounds and dishonor,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and his disgrace will not be wiped away. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div> </div>