5 Bible Verses about Character Assassination

Therefore, behold, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes. 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 evil word proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good for useful edification, that it may afford benefit to those that hear. And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, by which you were sealed to the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and blasphemy, be banished from among you, with all malice.read more.
But be kind one to another, merciful, giving one to another, as God also in Christ gave to you.

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

But the unbelieving Jews excited the minds of the gentiles against the brothers, and made them ill-disposed.

And those who went by blasphemed him, wagging 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. And the chief priests in like manner also mocked him, with the scribes and elders, and said,read more.
He saved others, himself he cannot save. If he is the king of Israel let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe on him; he trusted in God; let him deliver him if he wishes for him; for he said, I am a Son of God. The robbers also that were crucified with him did the same, and reproached him.