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Psalms 50:20

Psalms 50:20 is verse 20 of Psalms chapter 50, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

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

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King James Version

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

World English Bible

You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.

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Psalms 50:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible

18 When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.

19 You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit.

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

21 You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.

22 Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:

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Hebrew words

תֵּ֭שֵׁבyou sit בְּאָחִ֣יךָon brother your תְדַבֵּ֑רyou speak בְּבֶֽןon [the] child of אִ֝מְּךָ֗mother your תִּתֶּןyou give דֹּֽפִיa fault

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 31:18
May lying lips be silenced— lips that speak with arrogance against the righteous, full of pride and contempt.

Matthew 5:11
Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.

Luke 22:65
And they said many other blasphemous things against Him.

Leviticus 19:16
You must not go about spreading slander among your people. You must not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am the LORD.

Proverbs 10:18
The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool.

1 Timothy 3:11
In the same way, the women must be dignified, not slanderers, but temperate and faithful in all things.

Titus 2:3
Older women, likewise, are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much wine, but teachers of good.

Revelation 12:10
And 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.

Matthew 10:21
Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.

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