Numbered Discourses 5.211

22. Abuse

An Abuser

“Bhikkhus, a bhikkhu who abuses and insults their spiritual companions, speaking ill of the noble ones, can expect these five drawbacks. What five? They’re expelled, cut off, shut out; or they commit a corrupt offense; or they contract a severe illness. They feel lost when they die. And when their body breaks up, after death, they’re reborn in a place of loss, a bad place, the underworld, hell. A bhikkhu who abuses and insults their spiritual companions, speaking ill of the noble ones, can expect these five drawbacks.”