adultery, greed, evil, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, and folly.

For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

through glory and dishonor, through slander and praise; regarded as impostors, ¹  and yet true;

They must not slander ¹  anyone, but be peaceable, gentle, showing complete courtesy to all people.

So get rid of ¹  all evil and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.

But now, put off all such things ¹  as anger, rage, malice, slander, abusive language from your mouth.

And why not say, “Let us do evil so that good may come of it”? – as some who slander us allege that we say. ¹  (Their ²  condemnation is deserved!)

But these men do not understand the things they slander, and they are being destroyed by the very things that, like irrational animals, they instinctively comprehend. ¹ 

Yet do it with courtesy and respect, ¹  keeping a good conscience, so that those who slander your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame when they accuse you. ² 

‘I know the distress you are suffering ¹  and your poverty (but you are rich). I also know ²  the slander against you ³  by those who call themselves Jews and really are not, but are a synagogue ⁴  of Satan.

For I am afraid that somehow when I come I will not find you what I wish, and you will find me ¹  not what you wish. I am afraid that ²  somehow there may be quarreling, jealousy, intense anger, selfish ambition, ³  slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.