Backbiting

• Wind

The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.

Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

• Upright
• Character
• Church

{A Psalm of David.} LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart. He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.

• Character
• Unmerciful

Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

• House

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.

Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen.

• Tender
• Heart

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.

Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.

He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: