Katalalia denotes harmful speech listed among attitudes and behaviors to be put aside or feared within a community.

The two verses place katalalia among harmful dispositions and disruptive conduct: it is to be put aside in 1 Peter 2:1 and is feared as part of community disorder in 2 Corinthians 12:20.

1. Harmful speech within communal misconduct · dominant

   In 1 Peter 2:1, the accusative plural form is included in what is to be put aside alongside malice, deceit, hypocrisies, and envies; the APB renders the list with “all slanders.” In 2 Corinthians 12:20, the nominative plural form occurs in a feared list that includes quarreling, anger, rivalries, gossip, arrogance, and disorder; the APB again renders it “slanders.”

   1 Peter 2:12 Corinthians 12:20

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term as “slanders” in both cited lists. This rendering is confirmed by the surrounding lists rather than treated as a precise lexical mapping.