He that backbites not with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor.

You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

You shall not raise a false report: put not your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

You shall not go up and down as a talebearer among your people: neither shall you take a stand against the life of your neighbor: I am the LORD.

He that hides hatred with lying lips, and he that utters a slander, is a fool.

He that goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets: therefore associate not with him who flatters with his lips.

The north wind brings forth rain: so does a backbiting tongue an angry countenance.

In you are men that slander to shed blood: and in you they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of you they commit lewdness.

But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no not to eat.

Even so must their wives be serious, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

The aged women likewise, that they be in behavior as becomes holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

The wicked in his pride does persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in any of his thoughts.

For you will save the humble people; but will bring down haughty looks.

Though the LORD be high, yet has he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knows from afar.

Talk no more so very proudly; let not arrogance come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

Put forth the rage of your wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.

Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.

These six things does the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

A heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that are swift in running to evil,

There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.

The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.

The pride of your heart has deceived you, you that dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that says in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?

Though you exalt yourself as the eagle, and though you set your nest among the stars, from there will I bring you down, says the LORD.

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for everyone that exalts himself shall be abased; and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.

Likewise, you younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: