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an.5.211 Aṅguttara Nikāya (Numbered Discourses)

An Abuser

“Mendicants, a mendicant 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 mendicant who abuses and insults their spiritual companions, speaking ill of the noble ones, can expect these five drawbacks.”