48 Bible Verses about Backbiting

You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your mother's son.

The wind of the north produces rain, and a backbiting tongue, angry faces.

And just as they did not see fit {to recognize God}, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do the things [that are] not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greediness, malice, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malevolence. [They are] gossipers, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boasters, contrivers of evil, disobedient to parents,

One who slanders his neighbor in secret, him I will destroy. [One] haughty of eyes and {arrogant} of heart, him I will not endure.

O Yahweh, who may reside in your tent? Who may dwell on your holy mountain? He who walks blamelessly and does what is right. He who speaks honestly in his heart. He does not slander with his tongue. He does not harm his friend, nor {bring up} a disgrace against his neighbor.

Therefore, ridding yourselves of all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander,

For I am afraid lest somehow [when I] arrive, I will not find you as I want, and I may be found by you as you do not want. [I am afraid] lest somehow [there will be] strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, pride, disorder.

slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boasters, contrivers of evil, disobedient to parents,

Do not speak evil of one another, brothers. The one who speaks evil of a brother or judges his brother speaks evil of the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge [of the law].

being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greediness, malice, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malevolence. [They are] gossipers,

All bitterness, and rage, and wrath, and clamor, and abusive speech, must be removed from you, together with all wickedness.

You shall not go [about with] slander among your people; {you shall not endanger your neighbor's life}; I [am] Yahweh.

And at the same time also, going around from house to house, they learn [to be] idle, and not only idle, but also gossipy and busybodies, saying the things [that are] not necessary.

{No rotten word must proceed} from your mouth, but only something good for the building up of the need, in order that it may give grace to those who hear,

And just as they did not see fit {to recognize God}, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do the things [that are] not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greediness, malice, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malevolence. [They are] gossipers, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boasters, contrivers of evil, disobedient to parents,read more.
senseless, faithless, unfeeling, unmerciful, who, [although they] know the requirements of God, that those who do such things are worthy of death, not only do they do the same [things], but also they approve of those who do [them].

He who forgives an affront fosters love, but he who waits on a matter will alienate a friend.

A person of perversity will spread dissent, and he who whispers separates a close friend.

He does not slander with his tongue. He does not harm his friend, nor {bring up} a disgrace against his neighbor.

You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father! That one was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand firm in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he speaks the lie, he speaks from his own [nature], because he is a liar and the father {of lies}.

For lack of wood, a fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling will cease.

With a mouth, the godless shall destroy his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered.

he is conceited, understanding nothing, but having a morbid interest concerning controversies and disputes about words, from which come envy, strife, slanders, evil suspicions,

"You shall not testify against your neighbor [with] a false witness.

He who conceals hatred [has] lips of deceit, and he who utters slander--he is a fool.

He reveals a secret, he who walks [about with] gossip, and do not associate with a babbler's lips.

But [as] for the cowards and unbelievers and detestable persons and murderers and sexually immoral people and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their share [is] in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.

Understand [this], my dear brothers: every person must be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.

But now you also lay aside all [these] things: anger, rage, wickedness, slander, abusive language from your mouth.

But if you bite and devour one another, watch out [that] you are not consumed by one another.

" 'You will not {spread} a false report. Do not lift your hand with [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 perfect individual, able to hold in check his whole body also.

maintaining your good conduct among the Gentiles, so that in [the things] in which they slander you as evildoers, by seeing your good deeds they may glorify God on the day of visitation.

A gossip walks [about] telling a secret, but the trustworthy in spirit keeps [the] matter.

And 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, because the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, the one who accuses them before our God day and night.

and obscenity, and foolish talk, or coarse jesting (which [are] not proper), but rather thanksgiving.

Now if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask for [it] from God, who gives to all without reservation and not reproaching, and it will be given to him.

The wives likewise [must be] dignified, not slanderous, temperate, faithful in all [things].

Death and life [are] in the {power} of the tongue, and those who love her will eat of her fruit.

hardhearted, irreconcilable, slanderous, without self-control, savage, with no interest for what is good,

[when we are] slandered, we encourage. We have become like the refuse of the world, the offscouring of all [things], until now.

But [do so] with courtesy and respect, having a good conscience, so that in [the things] in which you are slandered, the ones who malign your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame.

The good person out of the good treasury of his heart brings forth good, and the evil person out of [his] evil [treasury] brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

a false witness who breathes lies and sends out discord between brothers.

All of them [are] stubborn rebels, going about [talking] slander. [They are] bronze and iron, they [are] all behaving corruptly.

"Let everyone be on your guard against his neighbor, and you must not trust in any brother, for everyone surely betrays, and every neighbor goes about [with] slander.

He who keeps his mouth guards his life; he who opens his lips, ruin [belongs] to him.

He who guards his mouth and his tongue, he guards his life from danger.