A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.

Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.

Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.

They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.

Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,

And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.