1 Samuel 24:9 Cross References - MKJV

⁹ And David said to Saul, Why do you hear man's words, saying, Behold, David seeks to do you evil?

¹⁶ You shall not go as a slanderer among your people; you shall not stand against the blood of your neighbor. I am Jehovah.

¹⁹ And now, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If Jehovah has stirred you up against me, let Him accept an offering. But if it is the sons of men, they are cursed before Jehovah. For they have driven me out today from joining myself with the inheritance of Jehovah, saying, Go, serve other gods.

⁵ Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, I will cut him off; him who has a high look and a proud heart, I will not allow.

⁶ When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.

²⁸ A perverse man causes fighting, and a whisperer separates chief friends.

⁴ A wicked doer gives heed to false lips; a liar gives ear to an evil tongue.

⁸ The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

²³ The north wind drives away rain; so does an angry face a backbiting tongue.

²⁰ Where there is no wood, the fire goes out; and where there is no talebearer, the fighting ceases. ²¹ As coals to burning coals, and wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome man to kindle fighting. ²² The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

²⁸ A lying tongue hates those afflicted by it, and a flattering mouth works ruin.

¹² If a ruler listens to lies, all his servants are wicked.

²¹ Also do not listen to all words that are spoken; lest you hear your servant curse you. ²² For also your own heart knows that you yourself have also cursed others many times.

⁶ And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. So the tongue is set among our members, spotting all the body and inflaming the course of nature, and being inflamed by hell.