5 Bible Verses about Character Assassination

For this reason, behold, I send you prophets and wise men and scribes; and some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

Let no impure speech come out of your mouth, but whatever is good for needful edification, that it may give grace to the hearers: and grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, with which you have been sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and anger and wrath and clamor and impious speaking be put away from you, with all malice:read more.
and be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.

For John the Immerser came, neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, He has a demon.

But the unbelieving Jews excited and embittered the minds of the Gentiles against the brethren.

And they that passed by reviled him, shaking their heads, and saying: You that destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself; if you are the Son of God, come down from the cross. In like manner also the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, derided him, and said:read more.
He saved others; himself he can not save. If he is the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe on him. He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he delights in him; for he said: I am the Son of God. The robbers also that were crucified with him, uttered the same reproaches against him.