15 Bible Verses about False Accusations

You shall not raise a false report: put not your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

You shall not go up and down as a talebearer among your people: neither shall you take a stand against the life of your neighbor: I am the LORD.

My enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish? And if he comes to see me, he speaks vanity: his heart gathers iniquity to itself; when he goes abroad, he tells it. All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.read more.
An evil disease, say they, clings close unto him: and now that he lies down he shall rise up no more. Yea, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who did eat of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

And the soldiers likewise asked of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.

Without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

If you be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are you; for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.

But now your kingdom shall not continue: the LORD has sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD has commanded him to be ruler over his people, because you have not kept that which the LORD commanded you.

And you have also appointed prophets to proclaim concerning you at Jerusalem, saying, There is a king in Judah: and now shall it be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together.

But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face.

For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, You are deserting to the Chaldeans.

And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against him.

Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good behavior in Christ.

Blessed are you, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.