48 Bible Verses about Backbiting

Thou wilt sit, and thou wilt speak against thy brother; against the son of thy, mother thou wilt give a stumbling-block.

The north wind will set free the rain, and an angry face, a hidden tongue.

And as they chose not to have God in knowledge, God delivered them to an adulterated purpose, to do things not fitting; Having been filled with all injustice, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, badness; full of envy, slaughter, strife, deceit, malignity, Whisperers, slanderers, odious to God, abusers of power, proud, tumultuous, inventors of injuries, disobedient to parents,

Slandering his neighbor in secret, him will I cut off: him being lofty of eyes and broad of heart, with him I will not eat

Chanting of David. O Jehovah, who shall sojourn in thy tent? who shall dwell in thy holy mountain? He going blameless, and working justice, and speaking truth in his heart. Slandering not with his tongue, not doing evil to his neighbor, lifting up no reproach against his neighbor.

Therefore setting aside all wickedness, and all artifice, and dissimulation; and envies, and all calumnies,

For I am afraid, lest somehow, having come, I find you not such; as I will, and I find you such as ye wish not: lest somehow, strifes, jealousies, wraths, intrigues, calumnies, whisperings, inflations, derangements:

Whisperers, slanderers, odious to God, abusers of power, proud, tumultuous, inventors of injuries, disobedient to parents,

Speak not against one another, brethren. He speaking against a brother, and judging his brother, speaks against the law, and judges the law: and if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

Having been filled with all injustice, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, badness; full of envy, slaughter, strife, deceit, malignity,

Let all harshness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and slander, be put away from you, with all badness:

Thou shalt not go a slanderer among thy people; thou shalt not stand upon the blood of thy neighbor: I Jehovah.

And at the same time also they learn to be idle, going round about the houses; and not only idle, but also indulging in idle talk, and occupied with unnecessary things, speaking things not becoming.

Let not any foul word go out of your mouth, but if any good to the building of necessity, that it might give grace to them hearing.

And as they chose not to have God in knowledge, God delivered them to an adulterated purpose, to do things not fitting; Having been filled with all injustice, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, badness; full of envy, slaughter, strife, deceit, malignity, Whisperers, slanderers, odious to God, abusers of power, proud, tumultuous, inventors of injuries, disobedient to parents,read more.
Destitute of understanding, unsteady, devoid of natural affection, implacable, merciless: Who knowing the justice of God, that they doing such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but also approve those doing.

He covering transgression seeks love; and he perverting in the word, separates a, friend.

A man of perverseness shall send forth strife: and a tale-bearer separates friends.

Slandering not with his tongue, not doing evil to his neighbor, lifting up no reproach against his neighbor.

Ye are of your father the devil, and the eager desires of your father will ye do. He was slaying men from the beginning, and stood not in the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he would speak a lie, he speaks of his own things; for he is a liar, and the father of him.

In the ceasing of wood, fire will go out: and in not being a tale-bearer, strife will subside.

With the mouth the profane will destroy his neighbor: and by knowledge, shall the just one be delivered.

He has been proud, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and disputes of words, of which is envy, strife, slanders, evil conjectures,

Thou shalt not testify against thy friend for falsehood.

He covering hatred with lips of falsehood, and he bringing forth slander, is foolish.

He revealing a secret going about tale-bearing: and thou shalt not intermingle with him embracing his lips.

But to the cowardly, and unbelieving, and to the abominable, and murderers, and to fornicators, and charmers, and to idolaters, and to all the lying, their part in the lake burning with fire and sulphur: which is the second death,

Wherefore, my dearly beloved brethren, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger:

Watch thy tongue from evil; and thy lips from speaking deceit

And now ye also put them all away; anger, wrath, badness, slander, shameful language out of your mouth.

And if ye bite and devour one another, see ye that ye be not laid waste by one another.

Thou shalt not take up a false report: thou shalt not put thy hand with the unjust one to be a witness of wrong.

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

Having your turning back good in the nations: that, in what they speak against you as doing evil, from good works, they having beheld, might praise God in the day of inspection.

He going about tale-bearing reveals a secret: and he being faithful of spirit hides the word.

And I heard a great voice saying in heaven, Now was salvation and power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ for the accuser of our brethren was cast down, he accusing them before our God, day and night.

And obscenity, and silly discourse, or wit, which things concern not; but rather thankfulness.

If any of you is forsaken of wisdom, let him ask of God, giving to all plainly, blaming not; and it shall be given him.

Wives also grave, not accusers, sober, faithful in all things.

Death and life in the hand of the tongue: and they loving it shall eat its fruit

Devoid of natural affection, not observing treaties, accusers, ungoverned, wild, not loving the good,

Being defamed, we entreat: as the filth of the world were we become, the offscouring of all until now.

Having a good consciousness; that, in what they speak evil against you, as doing evil, they threatening your good turning round in Christ should be ashamed.

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart, brings forward the good thing; and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart, brings forward the evil thing: for out of the abundance of the heart does his month speak.

A witness of falsehood, breathing out lies, and sending strife between brethren.

They are all turning aside, degenerate shoots, going about tale-bearing: brass and iron, they are destroyers all of them.

Watch ye each from his neighbor, and to any brother ye shall not trust, for every brother deceiving, will deceive, and every neighbor will go tale-bearing.

He guarding his mouth, watched his soul: he opening wide his lips, destruction to him.

He watching his mouth and his tongue watches his soul from straits.