23 Bible Verses about Slander

And Eli said unto her, How long will you be drunk? put away your wine from you.

And you have also appointed prophets to proclaim concerning you at Jerusalem, saying, There is a king in Judah: and now shall it be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together.

But 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 when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, You are deserting to the Chaldeans.

The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.

But the Pharisees said, He casts out demons through the prince of the demons.

And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King.

And set up false witnesses, who said, This man ceases not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:

Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.

Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him will I cut off: he that has a haughty look and a proud heart will I not endure.

Take you heed everyone of his neighbor, and trust you not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders.

For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

He that hides hatred with lying lips, and he that utters a slander, is a fool.

A hypocrite with his mouth destroys his neighbor: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.

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

And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their lord, Think you that David does honor your father, that he has sent comforters unto you? Has not David rather sent his servants unto 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 and 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 conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.

He that hides hatred with lying lips, and he that utters a slander, is a fool.

And Eli said unto her, How long will you be drunk? put away your wine from you.

And you have also appointed prophets to proclaim concerning you at Jerusalem, saying, There is a king in Judah: and now shall it be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together.

But 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 when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, You are deserting to the Chaldeans.

The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.

But the Pharisees said, He casts out demons through the prince of the demons.

And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King.

And set up false witnesses, who said, This man ceases not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:

Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.

Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him will I cut off: he that has a haughty look and a proud heart will I not endure.

Take you heed everyone of his neighbor, and trust you not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders.

For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

He that hides hatred with lying lips, and he that utters a slander, is a fool.

A hypocrite with his mouth destroys his neighbor: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.

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

And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their lord, Think you that David does honor your father, that he has sent comforters unto you? Has not David rather sent his servants unto 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 and 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 conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.

And the soldiers likewise asked of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Neither shall you bear false witness against your neighbor.

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

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

Take you heed everyone of his neighbor, and trust you not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders.

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

Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaks evil of his brother, and judges his brother, speaks evil of 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: put not your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

In which they think it strange that you run not with them to the same excess of dissipation, speaking evil of you:

They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and plan deceit all the day long.

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King.

Pilate therefore said unto him, Are you a king then? Jesus answered, You say that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth hears my voice.

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

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

Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye has seen it.

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

For I heard the mocking of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my friends watched for my fall, saying, Perhaps he will be deceived, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the trash of all things unto this day.

Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him will I cut off: he that has a haughty look and a proud heart will I not endure.

If a false witness rises up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong; Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, who shall be in those days; And the judges shall make diligent inquiry: and, behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother; read more.
Then shall you do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shall you put the evil away from among you. And those who remain shall hear, and fear, and shall hereafter commit no more any such evil among you. And your eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found unto you such as you desire not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, conceit, tumults:

Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found unto you such as you desire not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, conceit, tumults:

Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

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

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

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

There is one that speaks like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise brings health.

He that covers over a transgression seeks love; but he that repeats a matter separates close friends.

A perverse man sows strife: and a whisperer separates best friends.

The words of a talebearer are like tasty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts of the body.

The words of a talebearer are tasty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts of the body.

And not rather, (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose condemnation is just.

By honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;

These six things does the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

A false witness that speaks lies, and he that sows discord among brethren.

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

Therefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speaking,

Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good behavior in Christ.

Having your conduct honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.

But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses,

For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

In you are men that slander to shed blood: and in you they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of you they commit lewdness.

For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.

But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

If any man among you seems to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

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

Let this be the reward of my adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.

All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

They surrounded me also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

[A Psalm of David.] LORD, who shall abide in your tabernacle? who shall dwell in your holy hill?

He that backbites not with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor.

But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise authority. Presumptuous are they, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of the glorious ones.

Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise authority, and speak evil of the glorious ones.

And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came again in peace. And it came to pass, when he was come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said unto him, Why went you not with me, Mephibosheth? And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for your servant said, I will saddle me a donkey, that I may ride thereon, and go to the king; because your servant is lame. read more.
And he has slandered your servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in your eyes. For all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet did you set your servant among them that did eat at your own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king? And the king said unto him, Why speak you any more of your matters? I have said, You and Ziba divide the land. And Mephibosheth said unto the king, Yea, let him take all, forasmuch as my lord the king is come again in peace unto his own house.

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

And many of them said, He has a demon, and is mad; why hear you him?

Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?

Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and you say, If a man keeps my saying, he shall never taste of death.

Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.

You have heard the blasphemy: what think you? And they all condemned him to be guilty of death.

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

Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the trash of all things unto this day.

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

Then 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 inquired of the LORD for him, and gave him provisions, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine. Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests that were 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 gluttonous, and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.

And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, who accused them before our God day and night.

You shall not go up and down as a talebearer among your people: neither shall you take a stand against the life of your neighbor: I am the LORD.

And not rather, (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose condemnation is just.

By honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;

And many other things blasphemously spoke they against him.

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

Where no wood is, there the fire goes out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceases.

And at the same time they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but gossips also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good behavior in Christ.

Having your conduct honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

The north wind brings forth rain: so does a backbiting tongue an angry countenance.

He that hides hatred with lying lips, and he that utters a slander, is a fool.

Even so must their wives be serious, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

And at the same time they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but gossips also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their lord, Think you that David does honor your father, that he has sent comforters unto you? Has not David rather sent his servants unto you, to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?

And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, so that he died.

Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech you, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakens the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeks not the welfare of this people, but the harm.

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

A false witness that speaks lies, and he that sows discord among brethren.

Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaks evil of his brother, and judges his brother, speaks evil of 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 that judge another?

He that covers over a transgression seeks love; but he that repeats a matter separates close friends.

He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting over questions and disputes of words, out of which comes envy, strife, railings, evil suspicions,

And David said to Saul, Why hear you men's words, saying, Behold, David seeks your hurt?

A hypocrite with his mouth destroys his neighbor: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.

A hypocrite with his mouth destroys his neighbor: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.

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

In it was written, It is reported among the nations, and Geshem also says it, that you and the Jews think to rebel: for which cause you build the wall, 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 manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Take you heed everyone of his neighbor, and trust you not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders.

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

And she wrote in the letters, 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 did blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die. And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them. read more.
They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people. And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, so that he died. Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead.

For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in Aramaic, and set forth in the Aramaic language. Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this fashion: Then wrote Rehum the commander, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the judges, the governors, the officials, the Persians, the men of Erech, the Babylonians, the men of Susa, and the Elamites, read more.
And the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnappar brought over, and settled in the cities of Samaria, and the rest that are on this side the river, and so forth . This is the copy of the letter that they sent unto him, even unto Artaxerxes the king; Your servants the men on this side the river, send greetings. Be it known unto the king, that the Jews who came up from you to us have come unto Jerusalem, building the rebellious and wicked city, and are finishing its walls, and repairing the foundations. Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city is built, and the walls set up again, then will they not pay toll, tribute, and custom, and so you shall impair the revenue of the kings. Now because we receive support from the king's palace, and it was not proper for us to see the king's dishonor, therefore have we sent and informed the king; That search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers: so shall you find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and harmful unto kings and provinces, and that they have incited sedition within the city from of old: for which cause was this city destroyed. We inform the king that, if this city is built again, and its walls finished, by this means you shall have no dominion on this side of the river.

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

Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work, To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, showing all meekness unto all men.

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

And Haman said unto 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 keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to tolerate them.

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

You love all devouring words, O you deceitful tongue.

Then said they, Come, and let us devise plots against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us attack him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

Then they bribed men, who said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.

Whom Jason has received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus.

And the chief priests accused him of many things: but he answered nothing.

[A Psalm of David.] LORD, who shall abide in your tabernacle? who shall dwell in your holy hill?

He that backbites not 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 principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work, To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, showing all meekness unto all men.

The aged women likewise, that they be in behavior as becomes holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren 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 gluttonous, and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.

And the men, whom Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,

Even so must their wives be serious, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

He that hides hatred with lying lips, and he that utters a slander, is a fool.

But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

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

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

The north wind brings forth rain: so does a backbiting tongue an angry countenance.

You shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the trash of all things unto this day.

A hypocrite with his mouth destroys his neighbor: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.

You love all devouring words, O you deceitful tongue.

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