23 Bible Verses about Slander

And Eli said to her, How long will you be drunken? Put away your wine from you!

And you have also set up prophets to preach about you at Jerusalem, saying, There is a king in Judah. And now it shall be reported to the king according to these words. And now come and let us talk it over together.

But indeed put forth Your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse You to Your face.

For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

And it happened, he being in the gate of Benjamin, a commander of the guard named Irijah was there, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah. And he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, You are falling away to the Chaldeans.

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man who is a glutton and a winebibber, a friend of tax-collectors and sinners. But wisdom was justified by her children.

But the Pharisees said, He throws out demons by the ruler of the demons.

And they began to accuse Him, saying, We have found this one perverting the nation and forbidding them to give tribute to Caesar, saying himself to be a king, Christ.

And they set up false witnesses, who said, This man does not cease speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the Law.

But others mocking said, These men are full of sweet wine.

Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, I will cut him off; him who has a high look and a proud heart, I will not allow.

Everyone beware of his neighbor, and do not trust any brother! For every brother will supplant his neighbor, and will walk with slanders.

For I have heard the slander of many; fear is on every side; because of their plottings together against me, they planned to take away my life.

He who hides hatred with lying lips, and he who speaks a slander, is a fool.

A hypocrite corrupts his neighbor with his mouth; but through knowledge the just shall be delivered.

For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, He has a demon.

And the leaders of the sons of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, Do you think that David honors your father, that he has sent comforters to you? Has not David sent his servants to you to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?

But put forth Your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will curse You to Your face.

You sit; you speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.

Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos has plotted against you in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is not able to bear all his words.

He who hides hatred with lying lips, and he who speaks a slander, is a fool.

And Eli said to her, How long will you be drunken? Put away your wine from you!

And you have also set up prophets to preach about you at Jerusalem, saying, There is a king in Judah. And now it shall be reported to the king according to these words. And now come and let us talk it over together.

But indeed put forth Your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse You to Your face.

For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

And it happened, he being in the gate of Benjamin, a commander of the guard named Irijah was there, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah. And he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, You are falling away to the Chaldeans.

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man who is a glutton and a winebibber, a friend of tax-collectors and sinners. But wisdom was justified by her children.

But the Pharisees said, He throws out demons by the ruler of the demons.

And they began to accuse Him, saying, We have found this one perverting the nation and forbidding them to give tribute to Caesar, saying himself to be a king, Christ.

And they set up false witnesses, who said, This man does not cease speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the Law.

But others mocking said, These men are full of sweet wine.

Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, I will cut him off; him who has a high look and a proud heart, I will not allow.

Everyone beware of his neighbor, and do not trust any brother! For every brother will supplant his neighbor, and will walk with slanders.

For I have heard the slander of many; fear is on every side; because of their plottings together against me, they planned to take away my life.

He who hides hatred with lying lips, and he who speaks a slander, is a fool.

A hypocrite corrupts his neighbor with his mouth; but through knowledge the just shall be delivered.

For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, He has a demon.

And the leaders of the sons of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, Do you think that David honors your father, that he has sent comforters to you? Has not David sent his servants to you to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?

But put forth Your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will curse You to Your face.

You sit; you speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.

Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos has plotted against you in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is not able to bear all his words.

And the soldiers also asked of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said to them, Do not forcibly extort anyone, nor accuse any falsely. And be content with your wages.

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

And you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

They are all grievous revolters, walking in slanders; they are bronze and iron; they are all corrupters.

You sit; you speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.

Everyone beware of his neighbor, and do not trust any brother! For every brother will supplant his neighbor, and will walk with slanders.

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and tumult and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.

Do not speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against his brother, and who judges his brother, speaks against the Law and judges the Law. But if you judge the Law, you are not a doer of the Law, but a judge.

You shall not raise a false report. Do not put your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

In these things they are surprised, that you are not running with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming.

And those who seek my life lay snares for me; and those who seek my hurt speak sly things, and utter deceits all the day long.

for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me; they spoke against me with a lying tongue.

And they began to accuse Him, saying, We have found this one perverting the nation and forbidding them to give tribute to Caesar, saying himself to be a king, Christ.

Pilate then said to Him, Are you a king then? Jesus answered, You say it that I am a king. To this end I was born, and for this cause I came into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.

Then Pilate therefore took Jesus and flogged Him. And the soldiers plaited a crown of thorns and put it on His head. And they put a purple robe on Him, and said, Hail, King of the Jews! And they struck Him with their hands. read more.
Then Pilate went out again and said to them, Behold, I bring him out to you so that you may know that I find no fault in him. Then Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And Pilate said to them, Behold the man!

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

who sharpen their tongue like a sword, they tread their arrows, even a bitter word,

For I have heard the slander of many; fear is on every side; because of their plottings together against me, they planned to take away my life.

And they widen their mouths against me; they say, Aha, aha! Our eyes have seen.

My enemies speak evil of me, saying, When will he die, and his name perish?

For I heard the slanders of many, Terror is all around! Expose! Yea, let us expose him! Every man of my peace is watching for my fall, saying, Perhaps he will be lured away, and we shall prevail over him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.

Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, I will cut him off; him who has a high look and a proud heart, I will not allow.

If a false witness rises up against any man to testify a falling away against him, then both the men who are disagreeing shall stand before Jehovah, before the priests and the judges which shall be in those days. And the judges shall make careful inquiry. And behold, if the witness is a false witness and has testified falsely against his brother, read more.
then you shall do to him as he had thought to have done to his brother. So you shall put the evil away from among you. And those who remain shall hear and fear, and shall commit from then on no such evil among you. And your eye shall not pity. Life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

For I fear, lest somehow coming I might not find you as I wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you might not wish; lest somehow there be strifes, envyings, angers, contentions, backbitings, whisperings, proud thoughts, tumults;

being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; being full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, evil habits, becoming whisperers,

For I fear, lest somehow coming I might not find you as I wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you might not wish; lest somehow there be strifes, envyings, angers, contentions, backbitings, whisperings, proud thoughts, tumults;

backbiters, haters of God, insolent, proud, braggarts, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

Surely the snake will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.

A man who bears false witness against his neighbor is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.

There are those who speak like the thrusts of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

He who covers a transgression seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates friends.

A perverse man causes fighting, and a whisperer separates chief friends.

The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

And not rather, (as we are wrongly accused, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do bad things that good may come? Their condemnation is just.

through glory and dishonor, through evil report and good report; as deceivers and yet true;

These six Jehovah hates; yea, seven are hateful to his soul:

a false witness who speaks lies, and he who causes fighting among brothers.

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and tumult and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.

Therefore laying aside all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings, and all evil speakings,

having a good conscience, that while they speak against you as evildoers they may be shamed, those falsely accusing your good behavior in Christ.

having your conduct honest among the nations, in that which they speak against you as evildoers, they may glorify God in a day of His visitation, seeing your good works.

Cruel witnesses rose up; they asked of me that which I never knew.

But they found none; yea, though many false witnesses came, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came up

For I have heard the slander of many; fear is on every side; because of their plottings together against me, they planned to take away my life.

In you are men of slander to shed blood; and in you they eat on the mountains; in your midst they do unchaste acts.

For he that wants to love life and to see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking guile.

Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking guile.

But I say to you that every idle word, whatever men may speak, they shall give account of it in the day of judgment.

If anyone thinks to be religious among you, yet does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this one's religion is vain.

My enemies speak evil of me, saying, When will he die, and his name perish?

This is the reward of my foes from Jehovah, and of them who speak evil against my soul.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies;

A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth the good. And an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth the evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

For he that wants to love life and to see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking guile.

Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking guile.

All those hating me whisper against me; they plot evil against me.

And they surrounded me with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

A Psalm of David. Jehovah, who shall dwell in Your tabernacle? Who shall dwell on Your holy hill?

he does not backbite with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor;

and especially those who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise dominion. They are darers, self-pleasing; not trembling at glories, speaking evil.

Likewise, indeed, also these dreaming ones even defile flesh, and despise rulership, and speak evil of glories.

And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king. And he had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his moustache, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until he came in peace. And it happened when he had come to Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth? And he answered, My lord, O, king, my servant deceived me. For your servant said, I will saddle me an ass so that I may ride on it and go to the king, because your servant is lame. read more.
And he spoke slander against your servant to my lord the king. But my lord the king is as an angel of God. And do what is good in your eyes. For all my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king. And you set your servant among those eating at your own table. What right then have I to cry to the king any more? And the king said to him, Why do you speak any more of your matters? I have said, You and Ziba divide the land. And Mephibosheth said to the king, Yes, let him take all, because my lord the king has come in peace to his own house.

And the king said, And where is your master's son? And Ziba said to the king, Behold, he remains at Jerusalem. For he said, Today the house of Israel shall restore to me the kingdom of my father.

And many of them said, He has a demon and is insane. Why do you hear him?

Then the Jews answered and said to Him, Do we not say well that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?

Then the Jews said to Him, Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham and the prophets are dead, and you say, If a man keeps my Word, he shall never taste of death.

Then, because of this, the Jews sought the more to kill Him, because He not only had broken the sabbath, but also said that God was His father, making Himself equal with God.

You have heard the blasphemy; what do you think? And they all condemned Him to be guilty of death.

Surely the snake will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.

being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.

The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is wicked madness.

And answered Doeg the Edomite, who was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub. And he asked of Jehovah for him and gave him food and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine. And the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests in Nob. And they came, all of them, to the king.

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He has a demon. The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man who is a glutton and a winebibber, a friend of tax-collectors and sinners. But wisdom was justified by her children.

And I heard a great voice saying in Heaven, Now has come the salvation and power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ. For the accuser of our brothers is cast down, who accused them before our God day and night.

You shall not go as a slanderer among your people; you shall not stand against the blood of your neighbor. I am Jehovah.

And not rather, (as we are wrongly accused, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do bad things that good may come? Their condemnation is just.

through glory and dishonor, through evil report and good report; as deceivers and yet true;

And they spoke many other things blasphemously against Him.

And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee to this place.

Where there is no wood, the fire goes out; and where there is no talebearer, the fighting ceases.

And with it all they also learn to be idle, going around the houses; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things they ought not.

having a good conscience, that while they speak against you as evildoers they may be shamed, those falsely accusing your good behavior in Christ.

having your conduct honest among the nations, in that which they speak against you as evildoers, they may glorify God in a day of His visitation, seeing your good works.

The north wind drives away rain; so does an angry face a backbiting tongue.

He who hides hatred with lying lips, and he who speaks a slander, is a fool.

Even so their wives are to be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

And with it all they also learn to be idle, going around the houses; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things they ought not.

And the leaders of the sons of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, Do you think that David honors your father, that he has sent comforters to you? Has not David sent his servants to you to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?

And there came in two men, sons of Belial, and sat before him. And the men of Belial witnessed against him, against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth blasphemed God and the king. And they carried him out of the city and stoned him with stones so that he died.

And the rulers said to the king, Please let this man be put to death. For in this way he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them. For this man does not seek the good of this people, but the hurt.

And the king said, And where is your master's son? And Ziba said to the king, Behold, he remains at Jerusalem. For he said, Today the house of Israel shall restore to me the kingdom of my father.

a false witness who speaks lies, and he who causes fighting among brothers.

Do not speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against his brother, and who judges his brother, speaks against the Law and judges the Law. But if you judge the Law, you are not a doer of the Law, but a judge. There is one Lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. Who are you who judges another?

He who covers a transgression seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates friends.

he is proud, knowing nothing. He is sick concerning doubts and arguments, from which comes envy, strife, evil speakings, evil suspicions,

And David said to Saul, Why do you hear man's words, saying, Behold, David seeks to do you evil?

A hypocrite corrupts his neighbor with his mouth; but through knowledge the just shall be delivered.

A hypocrite corrupts his neighbor with his mouth; but through knowledge the just shall be delivered.

And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob has taken away all that was our father's, and he has gotten all this glory from that which was our father's.

It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says it, that you and the Jews are thinking of rebelling, for this reason you build the wall, so that you may be their king, according to these words.

Blessed are you when men shall revile you and persecute you, and shall say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for My sake.

Everyone beware of his neighbor, and do not trust any brother! For every brother will supplant his neighbor, and will walk with slanders.

she called to the men of her house and spoke to them, saying, See, he has brought in a Hebrew to us to sport with us. He came in to me, to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice. And it happened when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his robe with me, and fled, and got out. And she laid up his robe beside her until his lord came home. read more.
And she spoke to him according to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant which you have brought to us came in to me to sport with me. And it happened as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his robe with me and ran out.

And she wrote in the letter, saying, Proclaim a fast and set Naboth on high among the people. And set two men, sons of Belial, before him to bear witness against him, saying, You blasphemed God and the king. And carry him out and stone him so that he may die. And the men of his city, the elders and the nobles who lived in his city did as Jezebel had sent to them, as it was written in the letters which she had sent to them. read more.
They proclaimed a fast and set Naboth on high among the people. And there came in two men, sons of Belial, and sat before him. And the men of Belial witnessed against him, against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth blasphemed God and the king. And they carried him out of the city and stoned him with stones so that he died. And they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned and is dead.

For I have heard the slander of many; fear is on every side; because of their plottings together against me, they planned to take away my life.

And in the days of Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel and the rest of their companions, wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia. And the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue. Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this way. Then Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions, the judges, and the emissaries, the consuls, the officials, the Erechites, the Babylonians, the men of Susa, that is, the Elamites, read more.
and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Asnappar brought over and set in the cities of Samaria, and the rest of the province Beyond the River, and now, this is the copy of the letter which they sent to him, to Artaxerxes the king. Your servants the men of the province Beyond the River, and so now, let it be known to the king that the Jews who came up from you to us have come to Jerusalem, and are building the rebellious and the evil city, and have set up its walls, and have joined the foundations. And let it be known to the king that if this city is built and the walls set up, then they will not pay toll, taxes, or custom, and you shall endanger the revenue of the kings. And because we have eaten the salt of the palace, and it was not right for us to see the king's dishonor, therefore we have sent and notified the king, so that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers, and you shall find in the book of the records, and shall know that this city is a rebellious city, hurtful to kings and provinces, and that they have rebelled in it in the past, for which cause that city was destroyed. We notify the king that if this city is built and the walls of it set up, then you shall have no portion Beyond the River.

You shall not raise a false report. Do not put your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

Put them in mind to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready to every good work, to speak evil of no one, not being quarrelsome, but forbearing, showing all meekness to all men.

You sit; you speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.

And Haman said to King Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people, in all the provinces of your kingdom. And their laws are different from all people, neither do they keep the king's laws. And it is not for the king's gain to allow them to live.

Your tongue devises evil, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

You love all devouring words, O deceitful tongue.

Then they said, Come and let us plot schemes against Jeremiah. For the Law shall not perish from the priest, nor wisdom from the wise, nor the Word from the prophet. Come and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.

And they induced men to be saying, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.

whom Jason has received. And these all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.

And the chief priests accused Him of many things, but He answered nothing.

A Psalm of David. Jehovah, who shall dwell in Your tabernacle? Who shall dwell on Your holy hill?

he does not backbite with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor;

Put them in mind to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready to every good work, to speak evil of no one, not being quarrelsome, but forbearing, showing all meekness to all men.

Let the aged women likewise be in reverent behavior, not slanderers, not enslaved by much wine, teachers of good;

And I heard a great voice saying in Heaven, Now has come the salvation and power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ. For the accuser of our brothers is cast down, who accused them before our God day and night.

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man who is a glutton and a winebibber, a friend of tax-collectors and sinners. But wisdom was justified by her children.

And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report upon the land,

Even so their wives are to be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

He who hides hatred with lying lips, and he who speaks a slander, is a fool.

But I say to you that every idle word, whatever men may speak, they shall give account of it in the day of judgment.

You sit; you speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and tumult and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.

The north wind drives away rain; so does an angry face a backbiting tongue.

You shall be hidden from the whip of the tongue; neither shall you be afraid of robbery when it comes.

being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.

A hypocrite corrupts his neighbor with his mouth; but through knowledge the just shall be delivered.

You love all devouring words, O deceitful tongue.

Blessed are you when men shall revile you and persecute you, and shall say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for My sake.