Psalms 50:20

You sit and speak against your brother; you slander yours own mother's son.

Updated King James Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

19You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

21These things have you done, and I kept silence; you thought that I was altogether such an one as yourself: but I will reprove you, and set them in order before yours eyes.

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Cross References

Psalms 31:18Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

Matthew 5:11Blessed are all of you, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil (o. rhema) against you falsely, for my sake.

Luke 22:65And many other things blasphemously spoke they against him.

Titus 2:3The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becomes holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

Matthew Henry on Psalms 50:17-23

The Character of the Wicked. 16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? 17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. 18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers. 19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. 20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son. 21 These things hast thou done,… Read the whole commentary →

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