23 Bible Verses about Slander

And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.

And thou hast also appointed prophets to preach of thee 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 thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.

For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.

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

But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils.

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, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:

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

Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.

Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour 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 hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.

An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.

For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.

And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? hath not David rather sent his servants unto thee, to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?

But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.

Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.

Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.

He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.

And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.

And thou hast also appointed prophets to preach of thee 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 thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.

For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.

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

But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils.

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, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:

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

Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.

Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour 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 hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.

An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.

For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.

And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? hath not David rather sent his servants unto thee, to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?

But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.

Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.

Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.

And the soldiers likewise demanded 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.

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.

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

Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.

Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.

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

Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, 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 imagine deceits 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, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest 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 heareth 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 smote him with their hands. read more.
Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him. Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith 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 hath seen it.

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

For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

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

Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.

If a false witness rise 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, which shall be in those days; And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother; read more.
Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you. And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you. And thine 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 would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, 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 would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, 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 beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.

There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth 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 be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.

By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;

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

A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

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

Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

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

Having your conversation 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 thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee 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 thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

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 seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

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

Let this be the reward of mine 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 bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

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 thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

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

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

{A Psalm of David.} LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?

He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.

But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.

Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

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, Wherefore wentest not thou with me, Mephibosheth? And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go to the king; because thy servant is lame. read more.
And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in thine eyes. For all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king? And the king said unto him, Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? I have said, Thou 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 thy master's son? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he abideth at Jerusalem: for he said, To day shall the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father.

And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?

Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?

Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep 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.

Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye? 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 intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.

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

Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which 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 victuals, 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 hath a devil. The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans 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, which accused them before our God day and night.

Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.

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

By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;

And many other things blasphemously spake they against him.

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

Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.

And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers 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 conversation in Christ.

Having your conversation 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 driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.

He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.

Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? hath not David rather sent his servants unto thee, 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, that he died.

Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth 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 seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.

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

A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?

He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men's words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?

An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.

An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.

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

Wherein was written, It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel: for which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their king, according to these words.

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

Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.

That she called unto the men of her house, and spake unto them, saying, See, he hath brought in an 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 him out. And she laid up his garment by her, until his lord came home. read more.
And she spake unto him according to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant, which thou hast 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, Thou didst 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, 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 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 sort: Then wrote Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, and 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 that are on this side the river, and at such a time. This is the copy of the letter that they sent unto him, even unto Artaxerxes the king; Thy servants the men on this side the river, and at such a time. Be it known unto the king, that the Jews which came up from thee to us are come unto Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the bad city, and have set up the walls thereof, and joined the foundations. Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be builded, and the walls set up again, then will they not pay toll, tribute, and custom, and so thou shalt endamage the revenue of the kings. Now because we have maintenance from the king's palace, and it was not meet for us to see the king's dishonour, therefore have we sent and certified the king; That search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time: for which cause was this city destroyed. We certify the king that, if this city be builded again, and the walls thereof set up, by this means thou shalt have no portion on this side the river.

Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine 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, shewing all meekness unto all men.

Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine 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 thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.

Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully.

Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices 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 smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

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

Whom Jason hath 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 thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?

He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.

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, shewing all meekness unto all men.

The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh 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, which 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 winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.

And the men, which 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 grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth 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.

Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.

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

The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.

Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

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

An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.

Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

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