100 Bible Verses about Speaking Ill of Others (KJV)

Here are 100 Bible verses about speaking ill of others, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.

James 4:11-12 KJV

¹¹Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. ¹²There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?

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James 1:26 KJV

²⁶If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.

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Titus 3:1-15 KJV

¹Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work, ²To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men. ³For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. …

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Ephesians 4:29 KJV

²⁹Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

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Ephesians 4:31 KJV

³¹Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

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Colossians 3:8 KJV

⁸But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

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Luke 6:37 KJV

³⁷Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:

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Romans 12:19 KJV

¹⁹Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

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Philippians 4:8 KJV

⁸Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

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Proverbs 11:12 KJV

¹²He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace.

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Proverbs 17:9 KJV

⁹He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

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1 Peter 2:1-25 KJV

¹Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, ²As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: ³If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious. ⁴To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, …

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Ecclesiastes 7:21-22 KJV

²¹Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee: ²²For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.

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James 3:13 KJV

¹³Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.

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1 John 2:1-29 KJV

¹My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: ²And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. ³And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. ⁴He that saith, I know him, and …

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Matthew 5:22 KJV

²²But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

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Titus 3:2 KJV

²To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.

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1 Corinthians 6:10 KJV

¹⁰Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

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Romans 15:5 KJV

⁵Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:

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1 Peter 2:1 KJV

¹Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

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Ephesians 2:8 KJV

⁸For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

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1 Peter 3:16 KJV

¹⁶Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.

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Proverbs 11:9 KJV

⁹An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.

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Proverbs 16:28 KJV

²⁸A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.

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Jude 1:22 KJV

²²And of some have compassion, making a difference:

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James 4:11 KJV

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Jude 1:23 KJV

²³And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

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Romans 5:8 KJV

⁸But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

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Proverbs 6:16-19 KJV

¹⁶These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: ¹⁷A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, ¹⁸An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, ¹⁹A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

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Psalm 50:19-21 KJV

¹⁹Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. ²⁰Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son. ²¹These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

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Ephesians 4:32 KJV

³²And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

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1 Timothy 2:1-15 KJV

¹I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; ²For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. ³For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; ⁴Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto …

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1 Peter 2:12 KJV

¹²Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

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James 1:19 KJV

¹⁹Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

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1 Peter 2:23 KJV

²³Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:

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Proverbs 13:3 KJV

³He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.

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Galatians 6:2 KJV

²Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

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James 5:16 KJV

¹⁶Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

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James 5:9 KJV

⁹Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.

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Matthew 18:15 KJV

¹⁵Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.

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Proverbs 18:21 KJV

²¹Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

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Proverbs 16:24 KJV

²⁴Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

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Proverbs 15:1 KJV

¹A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

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Colossians 3:13 KJV

¹³Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.

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James 3:2 KJV

²For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.

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Luke 1:37 KJV

³⁷For with God nothing shall be impossible.

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Jeremiah 17:14 KJV

¹⁴Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.

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Proverbs 19:17 KJV

¹⁷He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.

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1 Peter 3:9 KJV

⁹Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.

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James 1:27 KJV

²⁷Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

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Ephesians 5:4 KJV

⁴Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.

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John 1:1-51 KJV

¹In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ²The same was in the beginning with God. ³All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. ⁴In him was life; and the life was the light of men. ⁵And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it …

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Matthew 7:12 KJV

¹²Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

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1 Peter 2:24 KJV

²⁴Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

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Matthew 6:7 KJV

⁷But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

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Isaiah 41:10 KJV

¹⁰Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

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Exodus 23:25 KJV

²⁵And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.

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Galatians 6:1 KJV

¹Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

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3 John 1:2 KJV

²Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

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Romans 8:26 KJV

²⁶Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

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Romans 3:20 KJV

²⁰Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

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Psalm 147:3 KJV

³He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

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2 Timothy 3:3 KJV

³Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

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2 Corinthians 12:20 KJV

²⁰For 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:

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Matthew 22:39 KJV

³⁹And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

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Jeremiah 30:17 KJV

¹⁷For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.

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Proverbs 15:4 KJV

⁴A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

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1 Peter 4:4 KJV

⁴Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

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1 Timothy 3:11 KJV

¹¹Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

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Philippians 2:4 KJV

⁴Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

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Ephesians 5:19 KJV

¹⁹Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

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Ephesians 4:25 KJV

²⁵Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

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Romans 1:30 KJV

³⁰Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

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Proverbs 17:22 KJV

²²A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

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Philippians 2:3-4 KJV

³Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. ⁴Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

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Ephesians 4:30 KJV

³⁰And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

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Proverbs 28:27 KJV

²⁷He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.

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Psalm 23:1-6 KJV

¹The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. ²He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. ³He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. ⁴Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. …

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Deuteronomy 7:15 KJV

¹⁵And the Lord will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.

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Exodus 15:26 KJV

²⁶And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee.

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Revelation 1:1 KJV

¹The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

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Acts 28:8 KJV

⁸And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him.

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Hebrews 13:16 KJV

¹⁶But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

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Matthew 7:1 KJV

¹Judge not, that ye be not judged.

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Isaiah 53:4-5 KJV

⁴Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. ⁵But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

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James 5:14 KJV

¹⁴Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:

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Ephesians 1:4 KJV

⁴According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

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1 Corinthians 4:5 KJV

⁵Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

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Romans 15:1 KJV

¹We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

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Romans 5:11 KJV

¹¹And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.

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Matthew 9:35 KJV

³⁵And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.

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Jeremiah 33:6 KJV

⁶Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.

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Psalm 30:2 KJV

²O Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.

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1 Samuel 24:12 KJV

¹²The Lord judge between me and thee, and the Lord avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.

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1 John 3:17 KJV

¹⁷But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

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1 John 2:15 KJV

¹⁵Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

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Romans 3:24 KJV

²⁴Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

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Psalm 41:3 KJV

³The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.

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Acts 20:35 KJV

³⁵I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

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Proverbs 31:8-9 KJV

⁸Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. ⁹Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

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