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Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
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Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
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Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
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But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
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Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
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Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
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Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
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Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
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Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
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Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
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Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
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Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
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Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the whole congregation.
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An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
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And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.
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A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
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For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
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His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
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The tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
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But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
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He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.
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Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
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He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
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Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
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A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.
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And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
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I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
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Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
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But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities:
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Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
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