48 Bible Verses about Backbiting

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

The north wind drives away rain; so does an angry face a backbiting tongue.

And even as they did not think fit to have God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do the things not right, being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; being full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, evil habits, becoming whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, insolent, proud, braggarts, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, I will cut him off; him who has a high look and a proud heart, I will not allow.

A Psalm of David. Jehovah, who shall dwell in Your tabernacle? Who shall dwell on Your holy hill? He who walks uprightly, and works righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart; he does not backbite with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor;

Therefore laying aside all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings, and all evil speakings,

For I fear, lest somehow coming I might not find you as I wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you might not wish; lest somehow there be strifes, envyings, angers, contentions, backbitings, whisperings, proud thoughts, tumults;

backbiters, haters of God, insolent, proud, braggarts, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Do not speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against his brother, and who judges his brother, speaks against the Law and judges the Law. But if you judge the Law, you are not a doer of the Law, but a judge.

being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; being full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, evil habits, becoming whisperers,

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and tumult and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.

You shall not go as a slanderer among your people; you shall not stand against the blood of your neighbor. I am Jehovah.

And with it all they also learn to be idle, going around the houses; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things they ought not.

Let not any filthy word go out of your mouth, but if any is good to building up in respect of need, that it may give grace to the ones hearing.

And even as they did not think fit to have God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do the things not right, being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; being full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, evil habits, becoming whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, insolent, proud, braggarts, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,read more.
undiscerning, perfidious, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful; who, knowing the righteous order of God, that those practicing such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but have pleasure in those practicing them.

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

A perverse man causes fighting, and a whisperer separates chief friends.

he does not backbite with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor;

You are of the Devil as father, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and did not abide in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it.

Where there is no wood, the fire goes out; and where there is no talebearer, the fighting ceases.

A hypocrite corrupts his neighbor with his mouth; but through knowledge the just shall be delivered.

he is proud, knowing nothing. He is sick concerning doubts and arguments, from which comes envy, strife, evil speakings, evil suspicions,

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

He who hides hatred with lying lips, and he who speaks a slander, is a fool.

A gossip is a revealer of secrets; so do not mix with him who flatters with his lips.

But the fearful, and the unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, will have their part in the Lake burning 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 your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking guile.

But now also put off all these things: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, shameful speech out of your mouth.

But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you are not consumed by one another.

You shall not raise a false report. Do not put your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

For in many things we all offend. If anyone does not offend in word, the same is a full-grown man, able also to bridle the whole body.

having your conduct honest among the nations, in that which they speak against you as evildoers, they may glorify God in a day of His visitation, seeing your good works.

One going with slander is a revealer of secrets, but the faithful of spirit keeps the matter hidden.

And I heard a great voice saying in Heaven, Now has come the salvation and power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ. For the accuser of our brothers is cast down, who accused them before our God day and night.

neither baseness, foolish talking, jesting, which are not becoming, but rather giving of thanks.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and with no reproach, and it shall be given to him.

Even so their wives are to be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, 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.

without natural affection, unyielding, false accusers, without self-control, savage, despisers of good,

being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.

having a good conscience, that while they speak against you as evildoers they may be shamed, those falsely accusing your good behavior in Christ.

A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth the good. And an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth the evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

a false witness who speaks lies, and he who causes fighting among brothers.

They are all grievous revolters, walking in slanders; they are bronze and iron; they are all corrupters.

Everyone beware of his neighbor, and do not trust any brother! For every brother will supplant his neighbor, and will walk with slanders.

He who keeps his mouth keeps his life; he who opens his lips wide, it is ruin to him.

Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.