Ezekiel 22:9
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Among you are slanderous men bent on bloodshed; within you are those who eat on the mountain shrines and commit acts of indecency.
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I will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go off with prostitutes and offer sacrifices with shrine prostitutes. So a people without understanding will come to ruin.
You must not go about spreading slander among your people. You must not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am the LORD.
Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.
They will eat but not be satisfied; they will be promiscuous but not multiply. For they have stopped obeying the LORD.
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Because you did not remember the days of your youth, but enraged Me with all these things, I will surely bring your deeds down upon your own head, declares the Lord GOD. Have you not committed this lewdness on top of all your other abominations?
Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false testimony against Jesus in order to put Him to death.
You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.
though the father has done none of them: Indeed, the son eats at the mountain and defiles his neighbor’s wife.
The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool.