49 Bible Verses about accusations

If a malicious witness rises up against a man to accuse him of wrongdoing,

Do not receive an accusation against an elder except on the basis of two or three witnesses.

“A single witness shall not rise up against a man on account of any iniquity or any sin which he has committed; on the evidence of two or three witnesses a matter shall be confirmed.

And while He was being accused by the chief priests and elders, He did not answer.

and keep a good conscience so that in the thing in which you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ will be put to shame.

Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies;

Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Do not slander a slave to his master,
Or he will curse you and you will be found guilty.

And He did not answer him with regard to even a single charge, so the governor was quite amazed.

But Michael the archangel, when he disputed with the devil and argued about the body of Moses, did not dare pronounce against him a railing judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”

For such is the will of God that by doing right you may silence the ignorance of foolish men.

“You shall not bear a false report; do not join your hand with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.

For this reason, if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words; and not satisfied with this, he himself does not receive the brethren, either, and he forbids those who desire to do so and puts them out of the church.

Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.

namely, if any man is above reproach, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, not accused of dissipation or rebellion.

“No weapon that is formed against you will prosper;
And every tongue that accuses you in judgment you will condemn.
This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord,
And their vindication is from Me,” declares the Lord.

He who vindicates Me is near;
Who will contend with Me?
Let us stand up to each other;
Who has a case against Me?
Let him draw near to Me.

yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach—

Yet let no one find fault, and let none offer reproof;
For your people are like those who contend with the priest.

Malicious witnesses rise up;
They ask me of things that I do not know.

He will not always strive with us,
Nor will He keep His anger forever.

And above His head they put up the charge against Him which read, “THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.”

Do not contend with a man without cause,
If he has done you no harm.

Now the chief priests and the whole Council kept trying to obtain false testimony against Jesus, so that they might put Him to death.

Then I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying,“Now the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, he who accuses them before our God day and night.

and behold, he has charged her with shameful deeds, saying, “I did not find your daughter a virgin.” But this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.’ And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city.

Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent or the righteous, for I will not acquit the guilty.

The chief priests began to accuse Him harshly.

Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; the one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have set your hope.

Let the lying lips be mute,
Which speak arrogantly against the righteous
With pride and contempt.

“For You write bitter things against me
And make me to inherit the iniquities of my youth.

The king then gave orders, and they brought those men who had maliciously accused Daniel, and they cast them, their children and their wives into the lions’ den; and they had not reached the bottom of the den before the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.

in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them,

Then the commissioners and satraps began trying to find a ground of accusation against Daniel in regard to government affairs; but they could find no ground of accusation or evidence of corruption, inasmuch as he was faithful, and no negligence or corruption was to be found in him.

Zaccheus stopped and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my possessions I will give to the poor, and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will give back four times as much.”

“These things you have done and I kept silence;
You thought that I was just like you;
I will reprove you and state the case in order before your eyes.

whereas angels who are greater in might and power do not bring a reviling judgment against them before the Lord.

Nor can they prove to you the charges of which they now accuse me.

do you say of Him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

Now He was also saying to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and this manager was reported to him as squandering his possessions.