American Standard Version of 1901
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Putting away therefore all {Or, malice 1 Corinthians 14:20.}wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
For we must all be made manifest before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things done {Greek: though.}in the body, according to what he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death.
{Or, He slandereth}He that slandereth not with his tongue,Nor doeth evil to his friend,Nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor;
Whoso privily slandereth his neighbor, him will I destroy:Him that hath a high look and a proud heart will I not suffer.
For lack of wood the fire goeth out;And where there is no whisperer, contention ceaseth.
The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels,And they go down into the innermost parts.
There is that speaketh rashly like the piercings of a sword;But the tongue of the wise is health.
For, {Psalm 34:12 ff.}He that would love life,And see good days,Let him refrain his tongue from evil,And his lips that they speak no guile: