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{"content":[{"abbv":"wsc","answer":"The ninth commandment forbiddeth whatsoever is prejudicial to truth, or injurious to our own, or our neighbor's, good name.","citation":"WSC 78","long_citation":"Shorter Catechism 78","name":"Shorter Catechism","number":"78","prooftexts":{},"question":"What is forbidden in the ninth commandment?","section_title":"","type":"catechism"},{"abbv":"wlc","answer":"The sins forbidden in the ninth commandment are, all prejudicing the truth, and the good name of our neighbors, as well as our own, especially in public judicature; giving false evidence, suborning false witnesses, wittingly appearing and pleading for an evil cause, outfacing and overbearing the truth; passing unjust sentence, 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; forgery, concealing the truth, undue silence in a just cause, and holding our peace when iniquity calleth for either a reproof from ourselves, or complaint to others; speaking the truth unseasonably, or maliciously to a wrong end, or perverting it to a wrong meaning, or in doubtful and equivocal expressions, to the prejudice of truth or justice; speaking untruth, lying, slandering, backbiting, detracting, talebearing, whispering, scoffing, reviling, rash, harsh, and partial censuring; misconstructing intentions, words, and actions; flattering, vainglorious boasting; thinking or speaking too highly or too meanly of ourselves or others; denying the gifts and graces of God; aggravating smaller faults; hiding, excusing, or extenuating of sins, when called to a free confession; unnecessary discovering of infirmities; raising false rumors, receiving and countenancing evil reports, and stopping our ears against just defense; evil suspicion; envying or grieving at the deserved credit of any, endeavoring or desiring to impair it, rejoicing in their disgrace and infamy; scornful contempt, fond admiration; breach of lawful promises; neglecting such things as are of good report, and practicing, or not avoiding ourselves, or not hindering what we can in others, such things as procure an ill name.","citation":"WLC 145","long_citation":"Larger Catechism 145","name":"Larger Catechism","number":"145","prooftexts":{},"question":"What are the sins forbidden in the ninth commandment?","section_title":"","type":"catechism"}],"content_with_prooftexts":[{"abbv":"wsc","answer":"The ninth commandment forbiddeth whatsoever is prejudicial to truth, or injurious to our own, or our neighbor's, good name.<sup id='fnref:wsc1'><a href='#fn:wsc1' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>1</a></sup>","citation":"WSC 78","long_citation":"Shorter Catechism 78","name":"Shorter Catechism","number":"78","prooftexts":{"1":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Leviticus 19:16</h5>\n<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>\n</div><h5>Psalm 15:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19015003.01-2\">who does not slander with his tongue<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and does no evil to his neighbor,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>nor takes up a reproach against his friend;</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 6:16-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20006016.01-3\">There are six things that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> hates,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>seven that are an abomination to him:<br />\n haughty eyes, a lying tongue,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and hands that shed innocent blood,<br />\n a heart that devises wicked plans,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>feet that make haste to run to evil,<br />\n a false witness who breathes out lies,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and one who sows discord among brothers.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Luke 3:14</h5>\n<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>\n</div>\n</div>"},"question":"What is forbidden in the ninth commandment?","section_title":"","type":"catechism"},{"abbv":"wlc","answer":"The sins forbidden in the ninth commandment are, all prejudicing the truth, and the good name of our neighbors, as well as our own,<sup id='fnref:wlc1'><a href='#fn:wlc1' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>1</a></sup> especially in public judicature;<sup id='fnref:wlc2'><a href='#fn:wlc2' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>2</a></sup> giving false evidence,<sup id='fnref:wlc3'><a href='#fn:wlc3' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>3</a></sup> suborning false witnesses,<sup id='fnref:wlc4'><a href='#fn:wlc4' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>4</a></sup> wittingly appearing and pleading for an evil cause, outfacing and overbearing the truth;<sup id='fnref:wlc5'><a href='#fn:wlc5' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>5</a></sup> passing unjust sentence,<sup id='fnref:wlc6'><a href='#fn:wlc6' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>6</a></sup> 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;<sup id='fnref:wlc7'><a href='#fn:wlc7' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>7</a></sup> forgery,<sup id='fnref:wlc8'><a href='#fn:wlc8' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>8</a></sup> concealing the truth, undue silence in a just cause,<sup id='fnref:wlc9'><a href='#fn:wlc9' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>9</a></sup> and holding our peace when iniquity calleth for either a reproof from ourselves,<sup id='fnref:wlc10'><a href='#fn:wlc10' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>10</a></sup> or complaint to others;<sup id='fnref:wlc11'><a href='#fn:wlc11' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>11</a></sup> speaking the truth unseasonably,<sup id='fnref:wlc12'><a href='#fn:wlc12' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>12</a></sup> or maliciously to a wrong end,<sup id='fnref:wlc13'><a href='#fn:wlc13' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>13</a></sup> or perverting it to a wrong meaning,<sup id='fnref:wlc14'><a href='#fn:wlc14' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>14</a></sup> or in doubtful and equivocal expressions, to the prejudice of truth or justice;<sup id='fnref:wlc15'><a href='#fn:wlc15' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>15</a></sup> speaking untruth,<sup id='fnref:wlc16'><a href='#fn:wlc16' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>16</a></sup> lying,<sup id='fnref:wlc17'><a href='#fn:wlc17' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>17</a></sup> slandering,<sup id='fnref:wlc18'><a href='#fn:wlc18' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>18</a></sup> backbiting,<sup id='fnref:wlc19'><a href='#fn:wlc19' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>19</a></sup> detracting,<sup id='fnref:wlc20'><a href='#fn:wlc20' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>20</a></sup> talebearing,<sup id='fnref:wlc21'><a href='#fn:wlc21' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>21</a></sup> whispering,<sup id='fnref:wlc22'><a href='#fn:wlc22' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>22</a></sup> scoffing,<sup id='fnref:wlc23'><a href='#fn:wlc23' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>23</a></sup> reviling,<sup id='fnref:wlc24'><a href='#fn:wlc24' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>24</a></sup> rash,<sup id='fnref:wlc25'><a href='#fn:wlc25' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>25</a></sup> harsh,<sup id='fnref:wlc26'><a href='#fn:wlc26' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>26</a></sup> and partial censuring;<sup id='fnref:wlc27'><a href='#fn:wlc27' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>27</a></sup> misconstructing intentions, words, and actions;<sup id='fnref:wlc28'><a href='#fn:wlc28' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>28</a></sup> flattering,<sup id='fnref:wlc29'><a href='#fn:wlc29' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>29</a></sup> vainglorious boasting;<sup id='fnref:wlc30'><a href='#fn:wlc30' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>30</a></sup> thinking or speaking too highly or too meanly of ourselves or others;<sup id='fnref:wlc31'><a href='#fn:wlc31' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>31</a></sup> denying the gifts and graces of God;<sup id='fnref:wlc32'><a href='#fn:wlc32' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>32</a></sup> aggravating smaller faults;<sup id='fnref:wlc33'><a href='#fn:wlc33' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>33</a></sup> hiding, excusing, or extenuating of sins, when called to a free confession;<sup id='fnref:wlc34'><a href='#fn:wlc34' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>34</a></sup> unnecessary discovering of infirmities;<sup id='fnref:wlc35'><a href='#fn:wlc35' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>35</a></sup> raising false rumors,<sup id='fnref:wlc36'><a href='#fn:wlc36' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>36</a></sup> receiving and countenancing evil reports,<sup id='fnref:wlc37'><a href='#fn:wlc37' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>37</a></sup> and stopping our ears against just defense;<sup id='fnref:wlc38'><a href='#fn:wlc38' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>38</a></sup> evil suspicion;<sup id='fnref:wlc39'><a href='#fn:wlc39' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>39</a></sup> envying or grieving at the deserved credit of any,<sup id='fnref:wlc40'><a href='#fn:wlc40' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>40</a></sup> endeavoring or desiring to impair it,<sup id='fnref:wlc41'><a href='#fn:wlc41' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>41</a></sup> rejoicing in their disgrace and infamy;<sup id='fnref:wlc42'><a href='#fn:wlc42' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>42</a></sup> scornful contempt,<sup id='fnref:wlc43'><a href='#fn:wlc43' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>43</a></sup> fond admiration;<sup id='fnref:wlc44'><a href='#fn:wlc44' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>44</a></sup> breach of lawful promises;<sup id='fnref:wlc45'><a href='#fn:wlc45' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>45</a></sup> neglecting such things as are of good report,<sup id='fnref:wlc46'><a href='#fn:wlc46' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>46</a></sup> and practicing, or not avoiding ourselves, or not hindering what we can in others, such things as procure an ill name.<sup id='fnref:wlc47'><a href='#fn:wlc47' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>47</a></sup>","citation":"WLC 145","long_citation":"Larger Catechism 145","name":"Larger Catechism","number":"145","prooftexts":{"1":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 3:14</h5>\n<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>\n</div><h5>1 Samuel 17:28</h5>\n<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>\n</div><h5>2 Samuel 16:3</h5>\n<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>\n</div><h5>2 Samuel 1:9-10</h5>\n<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>\n</div><h5>2 Samuel 1:15-16</h5>\n<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>\n</div>\n</div>","2":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Leviticus 19:15</h5>\n<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>\n</div><h5>Habakkuk 1:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p35001004.01-2\">So the law is paralyzed,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and justice never goes forth.<br />\nFor the wicked surround the righteous;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>so justice goes forth perverted. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","3":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 19:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20019005.01-1\">A false witness will not go unpunished,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and he who breathes out lies will not escape.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 6:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20006016.01-2\">There are six things that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> hates,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>seven that are an abomination to him: (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","4":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 6:13</h5>\n<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>\n</div>\n</div>","5":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jeremiah 9:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24009003.01-1\">They bend their tongue like a bow;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land;<br />\nfor they proceed from evil to evil,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and they do not know me, declares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 9:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24009005.01-2\">Everyone deceives his neighbor,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and no one speaks the truth;<br />\nthey have taught their tongue to speak lies;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they weary themselves committing iniquity.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 12:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19012003.01-3\">May the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> cut off all flattering lips,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the tongue that makes great boasts,<br />\n those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>our lips are with us; who is master over us?”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Acts 24:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44024002.01-4\">And when he had been summoned, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying:</p>\n<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>\n</div><h5>Acts 24:5</h5>\n<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>\n</div><h5>Psalm 52:1-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<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 />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>The steadfast love of God endures all the day.<br />\n Your tongue plots destruction,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.<br />\n You love evil more than good,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and lying more than speaking what is right. <span class=\"selah\">Selah</span><br />\n You love all words that devour,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O deceitful tongue. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","6":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 17:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20017015.01-1\">He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>are both alike an abomination to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Kings 21:9-14</h5>\n<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>\n</div>\n</div>","7":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 5:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23005023.01-1\">who acquit the guilty for a bribe,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and deprive the innocent of his right! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","8":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Kings 21:8</h5>\n<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>\n</div>\n</div>","9":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Leviticus 5:1</h5>\n<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>\n</div><h5>Acts 5:3</h5>\n<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>\n</div><h5>Acts 5:8-9</h5>\n<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>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 13:8</h5>\n<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>\n</div><h5>2 Timothy 4:16</h5>\n<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>\n</div>\n</div>","10":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Kings 1:6</h5>\n<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>\n</div><h5>Leviticus 19:17</h5>\n<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>\n</div>\n</div>","11":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 59:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23059004.01-1\">No one enters suit justly;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>no one goes to law honestly;<br />\nthey rely on empty pleas, they speak lies,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","12":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 29:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20029011.01-1\">A fool gives full vent to his spirit,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but a wise man quietly holds it back. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","13":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Samuel 22:9-10</h5>\n<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>\n</div><h5>Psalm 52:1-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<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 />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>The steadfast love of God endures all the day.<br />\n Your tongue plots destruction,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.<br />\n You love evil more than good,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and lying more than speaking what is right. <span class=\"selah\">Selah</span><br />\n You love all words that devour,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O deceitful tongue.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19052005.01-2\">But God will break you down forever;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he will snatch and tear you from your tent;<br />\n<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>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","14":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 56:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19056005.01-1\">All day long they injure my cause;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>all their thoughts are against me for evil.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Matthew 26:60-61</h5>\n<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>\n</div><h5>John 2:19</h5>\n<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>\n</div>\n</div>","15":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 3:5</h5>\n<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>\n</div><h5>Genesis 26:7</h5>\n<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>\n</div><h5>Genesis 26:9</h5>\n<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>\n</div>\n</div>","16":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 59:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23059013.01-1\">transgressing, and denying the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and turning back from following our God,<br />\nspeaking oppression and revolt,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","17":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Colossians 3:9</h5>\n<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>\n</div><h5>Leviticus 19:11</h5>\n<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>\n</div>\n</div>","18":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 50:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19050020.01-1\">You sit and speak against your brother;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you slander your own mother's son. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","19":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 15:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19015003.01-1\">who does not slander with his tongue<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and does no evil to his neighbor,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>nor takes up a reproach against his friend; (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","20":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>James 4:11</h5>\n<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>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 38:4</h5>\n<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>\n</div>\n</div>","21":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Leviticus 19:16</h5>\n<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>\n</div>\n</div>","22":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 1:29-30</h5>\n<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>\n</div>\n</div>","23":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 21:9</h5>\n<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>\n</div><h5>Galatians 4:29</h5>\n<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>\n</div>\n</div>","24":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 6:10</h5>\n<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>\n</div>\n</div>","25":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 7:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<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>\n</div>\n</div>","26":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 28:4</h5>\n<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>\n</div><h5>James 2:13</h5>\n<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>\n</div>\n</div>","27":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 38:24</h5>\n<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>\n</div><h5>Romans 2:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<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>\n</div>\n</div>","28":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 3:8</h5>\n<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>\n</div><h5>Psalm 69:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19069010.01-2\">When I wept and humbled my soul with fasting,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>it became my reproach.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Nehemiah 6:6-8</h5>\n<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>\n</div><h5>1 Samuel 1:13-15</h5>\n<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>\n</div><h5>2 Samuel 10:3</h5>\n<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>\n</div>\n</div>","29":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 12:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19012002.01-1\">Everyone utters lies to his neighbor;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19012003.01-1\">May the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> cut off all flattering lips,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the tongue that makes great boasts, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","30":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Timothy 3:2</h5>\n<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>\n</div>\n</div>","31":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 18:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<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>\n</div><h5>Luke 18:11</h5>\n<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>\n</div><h5>Acts 12:22</h5>\n<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>\n</div><h5>Exodus 4:10-14</h5>\n<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>\n</div><h5>Romans 12:16</h5>\n<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>\n</div><h5>Galatians 5:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48005026.01-6\">Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 4:6</h5>\n<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>\n</div>\n</div>","32":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 9:49-50</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<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>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 10:10</h5>\n<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>\n</div><h5>Acts 2:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002013.01-3\">But others mocking said, “They are filled with new wine.”</p>\n</div><h5>Job 27:5-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18027005.01-4\">Far be it from me to say that you are right;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.<br />\n I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Job 4:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18004006.01-5\">Is not your fear of God your confidence,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the integrity of your ways your hope? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","33":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 7:3-5</h5>\n<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>\n</div>\n</div>","34":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 28:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20028013.01-1\">Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Genesis 3:12-13</h5>\n<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>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 30:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20030020.01-3\">This is the way of an adulteress:<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>she eats and wipes her mouth<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and says, “I have done no wrong.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 2:35</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24002035.01-4\">you say, ‘I am innocent;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>surely his anger has turned from me.’<br />\nBehold, I will bring you to judgment<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for saying, ‘I have not sinned.’</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>2 Kings 5:25</h5>\n<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>\n</div><h5>Genesis 4:9</h5>\n<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>\n</div>\n</div>","35":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 25:9-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20025009.01-1\">Argue your case with your neighbor himself,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and do not reveal another's secret,<br />\n lest he who hears you bring shame upon you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your ill repute have no end.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Genesis 9:22</h5>\n<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>\n</div>\n</div>","36":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 23:1</h5>\n<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>\n</div>\n</div>","37":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 29:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20029012.01-1\">If a ruler listens to falsehood,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>all his officials will be wicked.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 41:7-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19041007.01-2\">All who hate me whisper together about me;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they imagine the worst for me.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19041008.01-2\">They say, “A deadly thing is poured out on him;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he will not rise again from where he lies.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","38":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 7:56-57</h5>\n<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>\n</div><h5>Job 31:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18031013.01-2\">“If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>when they brought a complaint against me,<br />\n what then shall I do when God rises up?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","39":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 13:5</h5>\n<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>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 6:4</h5>\n<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>\n</div>\n</div>","40":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 21:15</h5>\n<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>\n</div><h5>Numbers 11:29</h5>\n<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>\n</div>\n</div>","41":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ezra 4:12-13</h5>\n<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>\n</div><h5>Daniel 6:3-4</h5>\n<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>\n</div>\n</div>","42":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jeremiah 48:27</h5>\n<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>\n</div>\n</div>","43":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 27:28-29</h5>\n<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>\n</div><h5>Psalm 35:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19035015.01-2\">But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they gathered together against me;<br />\nwretches whom I did not know<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>tore at me without ceasing;<br />\n like profane mockers at a feast,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they gnash at me with their teeth.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 35:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19035021.01-3\">They open wide their mouths against me;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they say, “Aha, Aha!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Our eyes have seen it!” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","44":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jude 1:16</h5>\n<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>\n</div><h5>Acts 12:22</h5>\n<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>\n</div>\n</div>","45":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 1:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45001031.01-1\">foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Timothy 3:3</h5>\n<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>\n</div>\n</div>","46":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Samuel 2:24</h5>\n<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>\n</div>\n</div>","47":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Samuel 13:12-13</h5>\n<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>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 5:8-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20005008.01-2\">Keep your way far from her,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and do not go near the door of her house,<br />\n lest you give your honor to others<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your years to the merciless,</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 6:33</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20006033.01-3\">He will get wounds and dishonor,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and his disgrace will not be wiped away. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>"},"question":"What are the sins forbidden in the ninth commandment?","section_title":"","type":"catechism"}],"feed":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<title></title>\n\n</head>\n<body>\n<h5 class=\"header mb-1\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:18px\">Shorter Catechism</h5>\n<p class=\"question mb-0\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:16px\"><span class=\"q\">Q <em>78.</em></span>\nWhat is forbidden in the ninth commandment?</p>\n<div class=\"answer\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:16px\"><p style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><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.<sup id=\"fnref:wsc1\"><a href=\"#fn:wsc1\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">1</a></sup></p></div>\n\n <div class=\"prooftexts\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">\n <ol class=\"disc\">\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:1\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Leviticus 19:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p03019016.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">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>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 15:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19015003.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">who does not slander with his tongue\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and does no evil to his neighbor,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>nor takes up a reproach against his friend;</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Proverbs 6:16-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20006016.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">There are six things that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> hates,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>seven that are an abomination to him:\n haughty eyes, a lying tongue,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and hands that shed innocent blood,\n a heart that devises wicked plans,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>feet that make haste to run to evil,\n a false witness who breathes out lies,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and one who sows discord among brothers.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Luke 3:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p42003014.01-4\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Soldiers also asked him, \u201cAnd we, what shall we do?\u201d And he said to them, \u201cDo not extort money from anyone by threats or by false accusation, and be content with your wages.\u201d (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n </ol>\n </div>\n\n <h5 class=\"header mb-1\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:18px\">Larger Catechism</h5>\n<p class=\"question mb-0\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:16px\"><span class=\"q\">Q <em>145.</em></span>\nWhat are the sins forbidden in the ninth commandment?</p>\n<div class=\"answer\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:16px\"><p style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><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,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc1\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc1\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">1</a></sup> especially in public judicature;<sup id=\"fnref:wlc2\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc2\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">2</a></sup> giving false evidence,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc3\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc3\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">3</a></sup> suborning false witnesses,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc4\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc4\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">4</a></sup> wittingly appearing and pleading for an evil cause, outfacing and overbearing the truth;<sup id=\"fnref:wlc5\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc5\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">5</a></sup> passing unjust sentence,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc6\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc6\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">6</a></sup> 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;<sup id=\"fnref:wlc7\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc7\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">7</a></sup> forgery,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc8\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc8\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">8</a></sup> concealing the truth, undue silence in a just cause,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc9\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc9\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">9</a></sup> and holding our peace when iniquity calleth for either a reproof from ourselves,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc10\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc10\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">10</a></sup> or complaint to others;<sup id=\"fnref:wlc11\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc11\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">11</a></sup> speaking the truth unseasonably,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc12\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc12\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">12</a></sup> or maliciously to a wrong end,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc13\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc13\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">13</a></sup> or perverting it to a wrong meaning,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc14\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc14\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">14</a></sup> or in doubtful and equivocal expressions, to the prejudice of truth or justice;<sup id=\"fnref:wlc15\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc15\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">15</a></sup> speaking untruth,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc16\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc16\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">16</a></sup> lying,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc17\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc17\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">17</a></sup> slandering,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc18\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc18\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">18</a></sup> backbiting,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc19\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc19\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">19</a></sup> detracting,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc20\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc20\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">20</a></sup> talebearing,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc21\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc21\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">21</a></sup> whispering,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc22\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc22\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">22</a></sup> scoffing,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc23\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc23\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">23</a></sup> reviling,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc24\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc24\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">24</a></sup> rash,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc25\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc25\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">25</a></sup> harsh,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc26\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc26\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">26</a></sup> and partial censuring;<sup id=\"fnref:wlc27\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc27\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">27</a></sup> misconstructing intentions, words, and actions;<sup id=\"fnref:wlc28\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc28\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">28</a></sup> flattering,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc29\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc29\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">29</a></sup> vainglorious boasting;<sup id=\"fnref:wlc30\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc30\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">30</a></sup> thinking or speaking too highly or too meanly of ourselves or others;<sup id=\"fnref:wlc31\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc31\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">31</a></sup> denying the gifts and graces of God;<sup id=\"fnref:wlc32\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc32\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">32</a></sup> aggravating smaller faults;<sup id=\"fnref:wlc33\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc33\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">33</a></sup> hiding, excusing, or extenuating of sins, when called to a free confession;<sup id=\"fnref:wlc34\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc34\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">34</a></sup> unnecessary discovering of infirmities;<sup id=\"fnref:wlc35\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc35\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">35</a></sup> raising false rumors,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc36\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc36\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">36</a></sup> receiving and countenancing evil reports,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc37\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc37\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">37</a></sup> and stopping our ears against just defense;<sup id=\"fnref:wlc38\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc38\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">38</a></sup> evil suspicion;<sup id=\"fnref:wlc39\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc39\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">39</a></sup> envying or grieving at the deserved credit of any,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc40\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc40\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">40</a></sup> endeavoring or desiring to impair it,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc41\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc41\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">41</a></sup> rejoicing in their disgrace and infamy;<sup id=\"fnref:wlc42\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc42\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">42</a></sup> scornful contempt,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc43\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc43\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">43</a></sup> fond admiration;<sup id=\"fnref:wlc44\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc44\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">44</a></sup> breach of lawful promises;<sup id=\"fnref:wlc45\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc45\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">45</a></sup> neglecting such things as are of good report,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc46\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc46\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">46</a></sup> and practicing, or not avoiding ourselves, or not hindering what we can in others, such things as procure an ill name.<sup id=\"fnref:wlc47\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc47\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">47</a></sup></p></div>\n\n <div class=\"prooftexts\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">\n <ol class=\"disc\">\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:1\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Luke 3:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p42003014.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Soldiers also asked him, \u201cAnd we, what shall we do?\u201d And he said to them, \u201cDo not extort money from anyone by threats or by false accusation, and be content with your wages.\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Samuel 17:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p09017028.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Now Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men. And Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, \u201cWhy 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.\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">2 Samuel 16:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p10016003.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And the king said, \u201cAnd where is your master's son?\u201d Ziba said to the king, \u201cBehold, he remains in Jerusalem, for he said, \u2018Today the house of Israel will give me back the kingdom of my father.\u2019\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">2 Samuel 1:9-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p10001009.01-4\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And he said to me \u2018Stand beside me and kill me, for anguish has seized me, and yet my life still lingers.\u2019 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.\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">2 Samuel 1:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p10001015.01-5\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Then David called one of the young men and said, \u201cGo, execute him.\u201d And he struck him down so that he died. And David said to him, \u201cYour blood be on your head, for your own mouth has testified against you, saying, \u2018I have killed the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>'s anointed.\u2019\u201d (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:2\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Leviticus 19:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p03019015.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\u201cYou 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>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Habakkuk 1:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p35001004.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">So the law is paralyzed,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and justice never goes forth.\nFor the wicked surround the righteous;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>so justice goes forth perverted. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:3\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Proverbs 19:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20019005.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">A false witness will not go unpunished,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and he who breathes out lies will not escape.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Proverbs 6:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20006016.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">There are six things that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> hates,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>seven that are an abomination to him: (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:4\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Acts 6:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p44006013.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">and they set up false witnesses who said, \u201cThis man never ceases to speak words against this holy place and the law, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:5\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Jeremiah 9:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24009003.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">They bend their tongue like a bow;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land;\nfor they proceed from evil to evil,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and they do not know me, declares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Jeremiah 9:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24009005.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Everyone deceives his neighbor,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and no one speaks the truth;\nthey have taught their tongue to speak lies;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they weary themselves committing iniquity.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 12:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19012003.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">May the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> cut off all flattering lips,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the tongue that makes great boasts,\n those who say, \u201cWith our tongue we will prevail,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>our lips are with us; who is master over us?\u201d</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Acts 24:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p44024002.01-4\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And when he had been summoned, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying:</p>\n<p id=\"p44024002.13-4\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\u201cSince through you we enjoy much peace, and since by your foresight, most excellent Felix, reforms are being made for this nation,</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Acts 24:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p44024005.01-5\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">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>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 52:1-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19052001.30-6\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19052001-6\">52:1\u00a0</span>Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man?\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>The steadfast love of God endures all the day.\n Your tongue plots destruction,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.\n You love evil more than good,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and lying more than speaking what is right. <span class=\"selah\">Selah</span>\n You love all words that devour,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O deceitful tongue. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:6\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Proverbs 17:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20017015.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>are both alike an abomination to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Kings 21:9-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p11021009.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And she wrote in the letters, \u201cProclaim 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, \u2018You have cursed God and the king.\u2019 Then take him out and stone him to death.\u201d 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, \u201cNaboth cursed God and the king.\u201d So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death with stones. Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, \u201cNaboth has been stoned; he is dead.\u201d (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:7\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Isaiah 5:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23005023.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">who acquit the guilty for a bribe,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and deprive the innocent of his right! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:8\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Kings 21:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p11021008.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">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>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:9\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Leviticus 5:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p03005001.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v03005001-1\">5:1\u00a0</span>\u201cIf 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>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Acts 5:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p44005003.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">But Peter said, \u201cAnanias, 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>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Acts 5:8-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p44005008.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And Peter said to her, \u201cTell me whether you sold the land for so much.\u201d And she said, \u201cYes, for so much.\u201d But Peter said to her, \u201cHow 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.\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Deuteronomy 13:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p05013008.01-4\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">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>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">2 Timothy 4:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p55004016.01-5\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">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>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:10\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Kings 1:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p11001006.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">His father had never at any time displeased him by asking, \u201cWhy have you done thus and so?\u201d He was also a very handsome man, and he was born next after Absalom.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Leviticus 19:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p03019017.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\u201cYou 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>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:11\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Isaiah 59:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23059004.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">No one enters suit justly;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>no one goes to law honestly;\nthey rely on empty pleas, they speak lies,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:12\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Proverbs 29:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20029011.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">A fool gives full vent to his spirit,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but a wise man quietly holds it back. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:13\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Samuel 22:9-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p09022009.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, \u201cI 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.\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 52:1-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19052001.30-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19052001-2\">52:1\u00a0</span>Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man?\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>The steadfast love of God endures all the day.\n Your tongue plots destruction,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.\n You love evil more than good,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and lying more than speaking what is right. <span class=\"selah\">Selah</span>\n You love all words that devour,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O deceitful tongue.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19052005.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">But God will break you down forever;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he will snatch and tear you from your tent;\n<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>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:14\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 56:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19056005.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">All day long they injure my cause;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>all their thoughts are against me for evil.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Matthew 26:60-61</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p40026060.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">but they found none, though many false witnesses came forward. At last two came forward and said, \u201cThis man said, \u2018I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to rebuild it in three days.\u2019\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">John 2:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p43002019.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Jesus answered them, <span class=\"woc\">\u201cDestroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.\u201d</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:15\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Genesis 3:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p01003005.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Genesis 26:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p01026007.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, \u201cShe is my sister,\u201d for he feared to say, \u201cMy wife,\u201d thinking, \u201clest the men of the place should kill me because of Rebekah,\u201d because she was attractive in appearance.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Genesis 26:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p01026009.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">So Abimelech called Isaac and said, \u201cBehold, she is your wife. How then could you say, \u2018She is my sister\u2019?\u201d Isaac said to him, \u201cBecause I thought, \u2018Lest I die because of her.\u2019\u201d (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:16\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Isaiah 59:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23059013.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">transgressing, and denying the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and turning back from following our God,\nspeaking oppression and revolt,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:17\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Colossians 3:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p51003009.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Leviticus 19:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p03019011.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\u201cYou 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>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:18\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 50:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19050020.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">You sit and speak against your brother;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you slander your own mother's son. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:19\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 15:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19015003.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">who does not slander with his tongue\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and does no evil to his neighbor,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>nor takes up a reproach against his friend; (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:20\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">James 4:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p59004011.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">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>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Jeremiah 38:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p24038004.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Then the officials said to the king, \u201cLet 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.\u201d (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:21\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Leviticus 19:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p03019016.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">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>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:22\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Romans 1:29-30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p45001029.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">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>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:23\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Genesis 21:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p01021009.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, laughing.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Galatians 4:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p48004029.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">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>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:24\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Corinthians 6:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p46006010.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">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>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:25\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Matthew 7:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p40007001.03-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v40007001-1\">7:1\u00a0</span><span class=\"woc\">\u201cJudge not, that you be not judged.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:26\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Acts 28:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p44028004.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">When the native people saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, \u201cNo doubt this man is a murderer. Though he has escaped from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">James 2:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p59002013.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">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>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:27\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Genesis 38:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p01038024.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">About three months later Judah was told, \u201cTamar your daughter-in-law has been immoral. Moreover, she is pregnant by immorality.\u201d And Judah said, \u201cBring her out, and let her be burned.\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Romans 2:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p45002001.04-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v45002001-2\">2:1\u00a0</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>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:28\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Romans 3:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p45003008.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And why not do evil that good may come?\u2014as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 69:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19069010.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">When I wept and humbled my soul with fasting,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>it became my reproach.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Nehemiah 6:6-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p16006006.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">In it was written, \u201cIt 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, \u2018There is a king in Judah.\u2019 And now the king will hear of these reports. So now come and let us take counsel together.\u201d Then I sent to him, saying, \u201cNo such things as you say have been done, for you are inventing them out of your own mind.\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Samuel 1:13-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p09001013.01-4\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">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, \u201cHow long will you go on being drunk? Put your wine away from you.\u201d But Hannah answered, \u201cNo, 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>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">2 Samuel 10:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p10010003.01-5\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">But the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun their lord, \u201cDo 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?\u201d (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:29\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 12:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19012002.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Everyone utters lies to his neighbor;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19012003.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">May the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> cut off all flattering lips,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the tongue that makes great boasts, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:30\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">2 Timothy 3:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p55003002.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">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>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:31\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Luke 18:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p42018009.07-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt:</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Luke 18:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p42018011.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"woc\">The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: \u2018God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.</span></p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Acts 12:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p44012022.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And the people were shouting, \u201cThe voice of a god, and not of a man!\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Exodus 4:10-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p02004010.01-4\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">But Moses said to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, \u201cOh, 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.\u201d Then the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> said to him, \u201cWho 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.\u201d But he said, \u201cOh, my Lord, please send someone else.\u201d Then the anger of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> was kindled against Moses and he said, \u201cIs 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>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Romans 12:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p45012016.01-5\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Galatians 5:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p48005026.01-6\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Corinthians 4:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p46004006.01-7\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">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>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:32\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Luke 9:49-50</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p42009049.08-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">John answered, \u201cMaster, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he does not follow with us.\u201d But Jesus said to him, <span class=\"woc\">\u201cDo not stop him, for the one who is not against you is for you.\u201d</span></p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">2 Corinthians 10:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p47010010.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">For they say, \u201cHis letters are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Acts 2:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p44002013.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">But others mocking said, \u201cThey are filled with new wine.\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Job 27:5-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18027005.01-4\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Far be it from me to say that you are right;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.\n I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Job 4:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18004006.01-5\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Is not your fear of God your confidence,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the integrity of your ways your hope? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:33\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Matthew 7:3-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p40007003.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><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, \u2018Let me take the speck out of your eye,\u2019 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>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:34\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Proverbs 28:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20028013.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Genesis 3:12-13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p01003012.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">The man said, \u201cThe woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.\u201d Then the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> God said to the woman, \u201cWhat is this that you have done?\u201d The woman said, \u201cThe serpent deceived me, and I ate.\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Proverbs 30:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20030020.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">This is the way of an adulteress:\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>she eats and wipes her mouth\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and says, \u201cI have done no wrong.\u201d</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Jeremiah 2:35</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24002035.01-4\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">you say, \u2018I am innocent;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>surely his anger has turned from me.\u2019\nBehold, I will bring you to judgment\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for saying, \u2018I have not sinned.\u2019</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">2 Kings 5:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p12005025.01-5\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">He went in and stood before his master, and Elisha said to him, \u201cWhere have you been, Gehazi?\u201d And he said, \u201cYour servant went nowhere.\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Genesis 4:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p01004009.01-6\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Then the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> said to Cain, \u201cWhere is Abel your brother?\u201d He said, \u201cI do not know; am I my brother's keeper?\u201d (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:35\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Proverbs 25:9-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20025009.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Argue your case with your neighbor himself,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and do not reveal another's secret,\n lest he who hears you bring shame upon you,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your ill repute have no end.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Genesis 9:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p01009022.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">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>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:36\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Exodus 23:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p02023001.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v02023001-1\">23:1\u00a0</span>\u201cYou 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>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:37\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Proverbs 29:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20029012.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">If a ruler listens to falsehood,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>all his officials will be wicked.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 41:7-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19041007.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">All who hate me whisper together about me;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they imagine the worst for me.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19041008.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">They say, \u201cA deadly thing is poured out on him;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he will not rise again from where he lies.\u201d (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:38\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Acts 7:56-57</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p44007056.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And he said, \u201cBehold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.\u201d But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears and rushed together at him.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Job 31:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18031013.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\u201cIf I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>when they brought a complaint against me,\n what then shall I do when God rises up?\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:39\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Corinthians 13:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p46013005.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Timothy 6:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p54006004.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">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>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:40\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Matthew 21:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p40021015.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, \u201cHosanna to the Son of David!\u201d they were indignant,</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Numbers 11:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p04011029.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">But Moses said to him, \u201cAre 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!\u201d (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:41\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Ezra 4:12-13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p15004012.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">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>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Daniel 6:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p27006003.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">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>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:42\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Jeremiah 48:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p24048027.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">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>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:43\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Matthew 27:28-29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p40027028.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">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, \u201cHail, King of the Jews!\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 35:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19035015.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they gathered together against me;\nwretches whom I did not know\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>tore at me without ceasing;\n like profane mockers at a feast,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they gnash at me with their teeth.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 35:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19035021.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">They open wide their mouths against me;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they say, \u201cAha, Aha!\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Our eyes have seen it!\u201d (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:44\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Jude 1:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p65001016.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain advantage.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Acts 12:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p44012022.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And the people were shouting, \u201cThe voice of a god, and not of a man!\u201d (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:45\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Romans 1:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p45001031.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">2 Timothy 3:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p55003003.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:46\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Samuel 2:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p09002024.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">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>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:47\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">2 Samuel 13:12-13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p10013012.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">She answered him, \u201cNo, 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.\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Proverbs 5:8-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20005008.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Keep your way far from her,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and do not go near the door of her house,\n lest you give your honor to others\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your years to the merciless,</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Proverbs 6:33</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20006033.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">He will get wounds and dishonor,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and his disgrace will not be wiped away. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n </ol>\n </div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","title":"What are the sins forbidden in the ninth commandment?"}