48 Bible Verses about Backbiting

You sit, maligning your brother,
slandering your mother’s son.

The north wind produces rain,
and a backbiting tongue, angry looks.

And because they did not think it worthwhile to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a worthless mind to do what is morally wrong. They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, arrogant, proud, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,

I will destroy anyone
who secretly slanders his neighbor;
I cannot tolerate anyone
with haughty eyes or an arrogant heart.

A Davidic psalm.Lord, who can dwell in Your tent?
Who can live on Your holy mountain? The one who lives honestly, practices righteousness,
and acknowledges the truth in his heart—
who does not slander with his tongue,
who does not harm his friend
or discredit his neighbor,

So rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander.

For I fear that perhaps when I come I will not find you to be what I want, and I may not be found by you to be what you want; there may be quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.

slanderers, God-haters, arrogant, proud, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,

Don’t criticize one another, brothers. He who criticizes a brother or judges his brother criticizes the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,

All bitterness, anger and wrath, shouting and slander must be removed from you, along with all malice.

You must not go about spreading slander among your people; you must not jeopardize your neighbor’s life; I am Yahweh.

At the same time, they also learn to be idle, going from house to house; they are not only idle, but are also gossips and busybodies, saying things they shouldn’t say.

No foul language is to come from your mouth, but only what is good for building up someone in need, so that it gives grace to those who hear.

And because they did not think it worthwhile to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a worthless mind to do what is morally wrong. They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, arrogant, proud, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, read more.
undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, and unmerciful. Although they know full well God’s just sentence—that those who practice such things deserve to die—they not only do them, but even applaud others who practice them.

Whoever conceals an offense promotes love,
but whoever gossips about it separates friends.

A contrary man spreads conflict,
and a gossip separates close friends.

who does not slander with his tongue,
who does not harm his friend
or discredit his neighbor,

You are of your father the Devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of liars.

Without wood, fire goes out;
without a gossip, conflict dies down.

With his mouth the ungodly destroys his neighbor,
but through knowledge the righteous are rescued.

he is conceited, understanding nothing, but has a sick interest in disputes and arguments over words. From these come envy, quarreling, slander, evil suspicions,

Do not give false testimony against your neighbor.

The one who conceals hatred has lying lips,
and whoever spreads slander is a fool.

The one who reveals secrets is a constant gossip;
avoid someone with a big mouth.

But the cowards, unbelievers, vile, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars—their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

My dearly loved brothers, understand this: Everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger,

Keep your tongue from evil
and your lips from deceitful speech.

But now you must also put away all the following: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and filthy language from your mouth.

But if you bite and devour one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.

“You must not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked to be a malicious witness.

for we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a mature man who is also able to control his whole body.

Conduct yourselves honorably among the Gentiles, so that in a case where they speak against you as those who do what is evil, they will, by observing your good works, glorify God on the day of visitation.

A gossip goes around revealing a secret,
but a trustworthy person keeps a confidence.

Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say:

The salvation and the power
and the kingdom of our God
and the authority of His Messiah
have now come,
because the accuser of our brothers
has been thrown out:
the one who accuses them
before our God day and night.

Coarse and foolish talking or crude joking are not suitable, but rather giving thanks.

Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to all generously and without criticizing, and it will be given to him.

Wives, too, must be worthy of respect, not slanderers, self-controlled, faithful in everything.

Life and death are in the power of the tongue,
and those who love it will eat its fruit.

unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good,

when we are slandered, we respond graciously. Even now, we are like the world’s garbage, like the dirt everyone scrapes off their sandals.

However, do this with gentleness and respect, keeping your conscience clear, so that when you are accused, those who denounce your Christian life will be put to shame.

A good man produces good out of the good storeroom of his heart. An evil man produces evil out of the evil storeroom, for his mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.

a lying witness who gives false testimony,
and one who stirs up trouble among brothers.

All are stubborn rebels
spreading slander.
They are bronze and iron;
all of them are corrupt.

Everyone has to be on guard against his friend.
Don’t trust any brother,
for every brother will certainly deceive,
and every friend spread slander.

The one who guards his mouth protects his life;
the one who opens his lips invites his own ruin.

The one who guards his mouth and tongue
keeps himself out of trouble.