Psalms 15:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 15

³He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.

Psalms 15:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 13:10
Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Psalms 101:5-8
Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer. …
James 4:11
Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
Matthew 7:12
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
Leviticus 19:16
Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.

Topics

Accusation, False Backbiting Believer Busybody Children of God Christian Conscience Conscientiousness

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-5)

Here is, I. A very serious and weighty question concerning the characters of a citizen of Zion (Ps. 14:1): “ Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? Let me know who shall go to heaven.” Not, who by name (in this way the Lord only knows those that are his), but who by description: “What kind of people are those whom thou wilt own and crown with distinguishing and everlasting favours?” This suppose…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3. He neither slanders nor spreads slander.