17 Bible Verses about Character Assassination

He who hates masquerades with his lips, but he lays up deceit within him. When he speaks graciously, believe him not, for there are seven abominations in his heart.

He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

Because of this, behold, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scholars. And some of them ye will kill and crucify, and some of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will persecute from city to city,

Slanderous men have been in thee to shed blood, and in thee they have eaten upon the mountains. In the midst of thee they have committed lewdness.

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.

There are six things which LORD hates, yea, seven which are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked purposes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,read more.
a FALSE witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

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

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

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 do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in which ye are sealed for a day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and reviling be taken away from you, with all evil.read more.
And become good toward each other, compassionate, forgiving each other, even as also God in Christ forgave us.

For I have heard the slander of many. Fear [was] on every side, while they took counsel together against me. They devised to take away my life.

The proud have forged a lie against me. With my whole heart I will keep thy precepts.

Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise, for they have opened against me the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue. They have also encompassed me about with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

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

For the terrible one is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases. And all those who watch for iniquity are cut off, who make a man an offender in [his] cause, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nothing.

For John the immerser has come neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and ye say, He has a demon.

But the disobedient Jews aroused the souls of the Gentiles, and made them evil against the brothers.

And those who passed by reviled him, shaking their heads, and saying, Thou who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save thyself. If thou are the Son of God, come down from the cross. And likewise also the chief priests, ridiculing with the scholars, and elders, and Pharisees, said,read more.
He saved others, he cannot save himself. If he is the king of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe in him. He trusted in God, let him rescue him now, if he wants him, for he said, I am the Son of God. And also the robbers who were crucified with him reviled him the same way.