"Do not spread false rumors, and do not help a guilty person by giving false testimony.

and who do not slander others. They do no wrong to their friends nor spread rumors about their neighbors.

No one who gossips can be trusted with a secret, but you can put confidence in someone who is trustworthy.

A gossip can never keep a secret. Stay away from people who talk too much.

They are all stubborn rebels, hard as bronze and iron. They are all corrupt, going around and spreading gossip.

Everyone must be on guard against their friends, and no one can trust their relatives; for all relatives are as deceitful as Jacob, and everyone slanders their friends.

Some of your people tell lies about others in order to have them put to death. Some of them eat sacrifices offered to idols. Some are always satisfying their lusts.

Their wives also must be of good character and must not gossip; they must be sober and honest in everything.

they will be unkind, merciless, slanderers, violent, and fierce; they will hate the good;

In the same way instruct the older women to behave as women should who live a holy life. They must not be slanderers or slaves to wine. They must teach what is good,

Rid yourselves, then, of all evil; no more lying or hypocrisy or jealousy or insulting language.

"Do not accuse anyone falsely.

"Do not spread false rumors, and do not help a guilty person by giving false testimony.

Do not make false accusations, and do not put an innocent person to death, for I will condemn anyone who does such an evil thing.

Get a couple of scoundrels to accuse him to his face of cursing God and the king. Then take him out of the city and stone him to death."

They proclaimed a day of fasting, called the people together, and gave Naboth the place of honor.

but they could not find any, even though many people came forward and told lies about him. Finally two men stepped up

and said, "This man said, 'I am able to tear down God's Temple and three days later build it back up.' "

"I have sinned by betraying an innocent man to death!" he said. "What do we care about that?" they answered. "That is your business!"

So they bribed some men to say, "We heard him speaking against Moses and against God!"

Then they brought in some men to tell lies about him. "This man," they said, "is always talking against our sacred Temple and the Law of Moses.

I do not want to take up too much of your time, however, so I beg you to be kind and listen to our brief account.

He also tried to defile the Temple, and we arrested him.

If you question this man, you yourself will be able to learn from him all the things that we are accusing him of."