5 Bible Verses about Character Assassination

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

Let no corrupt word come out of your mouth; but what is good to useful edification, that it may benefit the hearers. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God whereby ye are sealed to the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and fury, and clamor, and calumny, be put away from you, with all malice: and be kind one to another,read more.
tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgiveth you.

for John the baptist came neither eating bread, nor drinking wine, and ye say, he hath a demon:

But the unbelieving Jews stirred up and inflamed the minds of the Gentiles against the brethren.

And they that passed by reviled Him, shaking their heads, and saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it again in three days, save thyself: if thou art the Son of God, come down from the cross. And in like manner the chief priests also insulting Him, with the scribes and elders,read more.
said, He saved others, himself He cannot save: if He be the king of Israel, let Him come down now from the cross, and we will believe Him: He trusted in God, let Him deliver Him now, if He will own Him; for He said, I am the Son of God. And one of the thieves also, that were crucified with Him, cast the same reproach upon Him.