Psalms 50:20

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“You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.”

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BSBPD

“You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; Thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Thou sittest, against thy brother thou speakest, Against a son of thy mother givest slander.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Psalms 50:20 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Leviticus 19:16You must not go about spreading slander among your people. You must not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am the LORD.
  2. Psalms 31:18May lying lips be silenced— lips that speak with arrogance against the righteous, full of pride and contempt.
  3. Proverbs 10:18The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool.
  4. Matthew 5:11Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.
  5. Matthew 10:21Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.
  6. Luke 22:65And they said many other blasphemous things against Him.
  7. 1 Timothy 3:11In the same way, the women must be dignified, not slanderers, but temperate and faithful in all things.
  8. Titus 2:3Older women, likewise, are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much wine, but teachers of good.
  9. Revelation 12:10And I heard a loud voice in heaven saying: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ. For the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down— he who accuses them day and night before our God.

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