48 Bible Verses about Backbiting

Thou sit and speak against thy brother; thou slander thine own mother's son.

The north wind brings forth rain. So does a backbiting tongue, an angry countenance.

And just as they did not approve having God in knowledge, God gave them over to an unfit mind, to do things that are not fit; having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; being gossips, slanderous, God-hating, aggressors, arrogant boasters, contrivers of evil things, disobedient to parents;

He who slanders his neighbor secretly, him I will destroy. He who has a high look and a proud heart I will not endure.

LORD, who shall sojourn in thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy holy hill? He who walks uprightly, and works righteousness, and speaks truth in his heart, he who does no slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor,

Therefore, having put off all evil and all deceit and hypocrisies and envies and all evil speaking,

For I fear lest somehow, having come, I may find you not such as I want, and I may be found by you such as ye do not want, lest somehow there be strifes, envyings, wraths, selfish ambitions, slanderings, whisperings, puffings up, t

being gossips, slanderous, God-hating, aggressors, arrogant boasters, contrivers of evil things, disobedient to parents;

Speak not against each other, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against law and judges law. But if thou judge law, thou are not a doer of law, but a judge.

having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity;

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and reviling be taken away from you, with all evil.

Thou shall not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people, neither shall thou stand against the blood of thy neighbor. I am LORD.

And also at the same time they learn to be idle, roving the houses, and not only idle, but also babbling and meddlesome, speaking things that they ought not.

Let no corrupt speech go out of your mouth, rather if there is any good word for edification of a need, so that it may give grace to those who hear.

And just as they did not approve having God in knowledge, God gave them over to an unfit mind, to do things that are not fit; having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; being gossips, slanderous, God-hating, aggressors, arrogant boasters, contrivers of evil things, disobedient to parents;read more.
without understanding, untrustworthy, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful. Who, knowing the righteousness of God, that those who commit such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but also favor those who do.

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

A perverse man scatters abroad strife, and a whisperer separates chief friends.

he who does no slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor,

Ye are from the father, the devil, and ye want to do the desires of your father. He was a man-killer from the beginning, and he has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his

For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, contention ceases.

The hypocrite destroys his neighbor with his mouth, but the righteous shall be delivered through knowledge.

he is puffed up, understanding nothing, but doting about disputes and word controversies, from which develop envy, strife, revilings, evil surmisings,

Thou shall not bear FALSE witness against thy neighbor.

He who hides hatred is of lying lips. And he who utters a slander is a fool.

He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets. Therefore do not associate with him who opens wide his lips.

But for the cowards, and unbelieving, and sinful, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.

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

But now ye also, put off all these things: anger, wrath, wickedness, reviling, filthy speaking out of your mouth.

But if ye bite and devour each other, watch out that ye be not consumed by each other.

Thou shall not take up a FALSE report. Do not put thy hand with the wicked man to be an unrighteous witness.

For we all stumble in many things. If any man does not stumble in word, this is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.

Having your behavior good among the Gentiles, so that, upon which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may glorify God in the day of visitation, from having observed your good works.

He who goes around as a tale-bearer reveals secrets, but he who is of a faithful spirit conceals a matter.

And I heard a great voice in heaven, saying, Now it came to pass, the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ. Because the accuser of our brothers was cast out, who accuses them before

also indecency, and foolish talking or jesting, things not befitting, but thankfulness instead.

And if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask from God who gives to all generously and not reproaching, and it will be given to him.

The wives likewise, be honorable, not slanderous, without wine, faithful in all things.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it shall eat the fruit of it.

devoid of natural affection, irreconcilable, slanderous, without self-control, savage, no lovers of good,

being slandered, we entreat. We became as trash of the world, an offscouring of all things, until now.

Having a good conscience, so that, in what they speak against you as of evil-doers, they may be ashamed, those who revile your good behavior in Christ.

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth the good, and the bad man out of the bad treasure of his heart brings forth the bad, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

a FALSE witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

They are all grievous revolters, going about with slanders. They are brass and iron. They all of them deal corruptly.

Take ye heed each one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother, for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.

He who guards his mouth keeps his life. He who opens wide his lips shall have destruction.

He who keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.