17 Bible Verses about Character Assassination

The one who hates others disguises it with his lips, but he stores up deceit within him. When he speaks graciously, do not believe him, for there are seven abominations within him.

He has stripped me of my honor and has taken the crown off my head.

"For this reason I am sending you prophets and wise men and experts in the law, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town,

Slanderous men shed blood within you. Those who live within you eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains; they commit obscene acts among you.

You must not go about as a slanderer among your people. You must not stand idly by when your neighbor's life is at stake. I am the Lord.

There are six things that the Lord hates, even seven things that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift to run to evil,read more.
a false witness who pours out lies, and a person who spreads discord among family members.

A perverse person spreads dissension, and a gossip separates the closest friends.

The one who forgives an offense seeks love, but whoever repeats a matter separates close friends.

You must let no unwholesome word come out of your mouth, but only what is beneficial for the building up of the one in need, that it may give grace to those who hear. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. You must put away every kind of bitterness, anger, wrath, quarreling, and evil, slanderous talk.read more.
Instead, be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ also forgave you.

For I hear what so many are saying, the terrifying news that comes from every direction. When they plot together against me, they figure out how they can take my life.

Arrogant people smear my reputation with lies, but I observe your precepts with all my heart.

For the music director, a psalm of David. O God whom I praise, do not ignore me! For they say cruel and deceptive things to me; they lie to me. They surround me and say hateful things; they attack me for no reason.

With his speech the godless person destroys his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous will be delivered.

For tyrants will disappear, those who taunt will vanish, and all those who love to do wrong will be eliminated -- those who bear false testimony against a person, who entrap the one who arbitrates at the city gate and deprive the innocent of justice by making false charges.

For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, 'He has a demon!'

But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

Those who passed by defamed him, shaking their heads and saying, "You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are God's Son, come down from the cross!" In the same way even the chief priests -- together with the experts in the law and elders -- were mocking him:read more.
"He saved others, but he cannot save himself! He is the king of Israel! If he comes down now from the cross, we will believe in him! He trusts in God -- let God, if he wants to, deliver him now because he said, 'I am God's Son'!" The robbers who were crucified with him also spoke abusively to him.