23 Bible Verses about Slander

And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? Put away thy wine from thee.

And thou hast also appointed prophets to preach of thee at Jerusalem, saying, There is a king in Judah! And now these words shall be heard by the king. Come now, therefore, and let us take counsel together.

But put forth thy hand now and touch his bone and his flesh, and thou shalt see if he does not blaspheme thee to thy face.

For thou didst take a pledge from thy brother without cause and stripped the naked of their clothing.

And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.

The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified by her children.

But the Pharisees said, He casts out demons through the prince of the demons.

And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King.

and set up false witnesses, who said, This man does not cease to speak blasphemous words against this holy place and the law,

Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.

Whosoever secretly slanders his neighbour, I will cut off; he that has a high look and a proud heart I will not suffer.

Take heed each one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.

For I have heard the slander of many; fear was on every side; while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

He that hides hatred has lying lips, and he that utters a slander, is a fool.

The hypocrite with his mouth destroys his neighbour, but the just are delivered with wisdom.

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

And the princes of the sons of Ammon said unto Hanun their lord, Does it appear unto thee that David has sent comforters unto thee to honour thy father? Has not David rather sent his slaves unto thee to search the city and to spy it out and to overthrow it?

But put forth thy hand now and touch all that he has, and thou shalt see if he will not blaspheme thee to thy face.

Thou didst sit and speak against thy brother; thou didst slander thine own mother's son.

Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos has conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is not able to bear all his words.

He that hides hatred has lying lips, and he that utters a slander, is a fool.

And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? Put away thy wine from thee.

And thou hast also appointed prophets to preach of thee at Jerusalem, saying, There is a king in Judah! And now these words shall be heard by the king. Come now, therefore, and let us take counsel together.

But put forth thy hand now and touch his bone and his flesh, and thou shalt see if he does not blaspheme thee to thy face.

For thou didst take a pledge from thy brother without cause and stripped the naked of their clothing.

And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.

The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified by her children.

But the Pharisees said, He casts out demons through the prince of the demons.

And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King.

and set up false witnesses, who said, This man does not cease to speak blasphemous words against this holy place and the law,

Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.

Whosoever secretly slanders his neighbour, I will cut off; he that has a high look and a proud heart I will not suffer.

Take heed each one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.

For I have heard the slander of many; fear was on every side; while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

He that hides hatred has lying lips, and he that utters a slander, is a fool.

The hypocrite with his mouth destroys his neighbour, but the just are delivered with wisdom.

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

And the princes of the sons of Ammon said unto Hanun their lord, Does it appear unto thee that David has sent comforters unto thee to honour thy father? Has not David rather sent his slaves unto thee to search the city and to spy it out and to overthrow it?

But put forth thy hand now and touch all that he has, and thou shalt see if he will not blaspheme thee to thy face.

Thou didst sit and speak against thy brother; thou didst slander thine own mother's son.

Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos has conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is not able to bear all his words.

And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Oppress no one, neither accuse anyone falsely; and be content with your wages.

Thou shalt not give false testimony against thy neighbour.

Thou shalt not give false testimony against thy neighbour.

They are all rebellious princes; they walk with deception: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.

Thou didst sit and speak against thy brother; thou didst slander thine own mother's son.

Take heed each one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and evil speaking be taken away from you, with all malice,

Murmur not against one another, brethren. He that speaks evil of his brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law; but if thou judge the law, thou art not a keeper of the law, but a judge.

Thou shalt not admit a false rumour; put not thine hand with the wicked to be a false witness.

And it seems strange to those that speak evil of you, that ye do not run with them to the same unchecked dissolution;

Those that seek after my life lay snares for me, and those that seek my hurt speak calamities and imagine deceits all the day long.

for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me; they have spoken of me with a lying tongue.

And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King.

Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I AM king. To this end I was born, and for this cause I came into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth hears my voice.

Then Pilate, therefore, took Jesus and scourged him. And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they put a purple robe on him and said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands. read more.
Pilate therefore went forth again and said unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him. Then Jesus came forth, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And Pilate said unto them, Behold the man!

They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

Who whet their tongue like a sword and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words

For I have heard the slander of many; fear was on every side; while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me and said, Aha, aha, our eye has seen it.

My enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die and his name perish?

For I heard the murmuring of many, fear on every side, Report, and we will report it. All my friends watched to see if I would stumble. Peradventure he will deceive himself, they said, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

being blasphemed, we intreat; we are made as the filth of this world and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.

Whosoever secretly slanders his neighbour, I will cut off; he that has a high look and a proud heart I will not suffer.

When a false witness rises up against any man to testify rebellion against him, then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, who shall be in those days; and the judges shall make diligent inquisition; and, behold, if the witness is a false witness and has testified falsely against his brother, read more.
then shall ye do unto him as he had thought to have done unto his brother; so shalt thou put the evil away from among you. And those who remain shall hear and fear and shall never again commit any such evil among you. And thine eye shall not pity, but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I desire and that I shall be found unto you such as ye desire not, lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, rumours, tumults,

being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I desire and that I shall be found unto you such as ye desire not, lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, rumours, tumults,

backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

If the serpent bites without being enchanted, then the babbler is no more.

A man that bears false witness against his neighbour is a maul and a sword and a sharp arrow.

There are those that speak like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise is medicine.

He that covers a transgression seeks love, but he that repeats a matter separates very friends.

The perverse man sows strife, and the tale bearer separates princes.

The words of a talebearer seem smooth, but they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

The words of a talebearer seem smooth, but they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

And why not say (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do evil, that good may come? The condemnation of whom is just.

through honour and dishonour, through evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet as men of the truth;

These six things does the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

a false witness that speaks lies, and he that sows discord among brethren.

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and evil speaking be taken away from you, with all malice,

Having therefore left all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envies and all murmurings,

having a good conscience, so in that which they murmur against you as of evildoers, those that blaspheme your good conversation in the Christ may be confused.

and have your honest conversation among the Gentiles, so that, in that which they murmur about you as of evildoers, having witnessed your good works, they may glorify God in the day of visitation.

False witnesses rose up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.

but found none; though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses

For I have heard the slander of many; fear was on every side; while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood; and in thee they eat upon the mountains; in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.

For he that desires to love life and see the good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil and his lips that they speak no guile;

Mem Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

If anyone among you thinks to be religious and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, his religion is vain.

My enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die and his name perish?

Let this be the reward from the LORD of those who spoke falsely against me and of those that speak evil against my soul.

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth that which is evil, for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

For he that desires to love life and see the good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil and his lips that they speak no guile;

Mem Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

All that hate me congregate together and murmur against me; against me do they devise my hurt.

They compassed me about with words of hatred and fought against me without a cause.

LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in the mountain of thy holiness?

He that does not backbite with his tongue nor do evil to his neighbour nor take up a reproach against his neighbour.

and chiefly those that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise dominion; presumptuous, arrogant, they are not afraid to speak evil of the higher powers;

In the same manner these deceived dreamers, defile their flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of higher powers.

Mephibosheth, the son of Saul, also came down to meet the king and had neither washed his feet nor trimmed his beard nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came again in peace. And after he had come to Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said unto him, Why didst thou not go with me, Mephibosheth? And he answered, My lord, O king, my slave deceived me, for thy slave said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride upon it and go to the king because thy slave is lame. read more.
And he has slandered thy slave unto my lord the king, but my lord the king is as an angel of God; do therefore what is good in thine eyes. For all of my father's house were worthy of death before my lord the king; yet thou didst set thy slave among those that eat at thy own table. What righteousness, therefore, have I yet to cry any more unto the king? And the king said unto him, Why speakest thou any more words? I have determined, Thou and Ziba divide the land. And Mephibosheth said unto the king, Let him even take it all, forasmuch as my lord the king is come again in peace unto his own house.

And the king said, And where is thy master's son? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he abides at Jerusalem, for he said, Today shall the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father.

And many of them said, He has a demon and is beside himself; why do ye hear him?

Then the Jews answered, and said unto him, Do we not say well that thou art a Samaritan and hast a demon?

Then the Jews said unto him, Now we know that thou hast a demon. Abraham died and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keeps my word, he shall not taste death forever?

Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye? And they all condemned him to be guilty of death.

If the serpent bites without being enchanted, then the babbler is no more.

being blasphemed, we intreat; we are made as the filth of this world and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.

The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness, and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

Then Doeg, the Edomite, who was set over the slaves of Saul, answered and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob to Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub. And he enquired of the LORD for him and gave him provision and gave him the sword of Goliath, the Philistine. Then the king sent to call Ahimelech, the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests that were in Nob; and they all came to the king.

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He has a devil. The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified by her children.

And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation and virtue and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ; for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, who accused them before our God day and night.

Thou shalt not travel about as a talebearer among thy people; neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour. I am the LORD.

And why not say (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do evil, that good may come? The condemnation of whom is just.

through honour and dishonour, through evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet as men of the truth;

And they spoke many other things blasphemously against him.

And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee to this place.

Where there is no wood, the fire goes out, so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceases.

And reject also the idle, who have learned to wander about from house to house, and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

having a good conscience, so in that which they murmur against you as of evildoers, those that blaspheme your good conversation in the Christ may be confused.

and have your honest conversation among the Gentiles, so that, in that which they murmur about you as of evildoers, having witnessed your good works, they may glorify God in the day of visitation.

The north wind drives away rain, so does an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.

He that hides hatred has lying lips, and he that utters a slander, is a fool.

The wives likewise are to be honest, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

And reject also the idle, who have learned to wander about from house to house, and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

And the princes of the sons of Ammon said unto Hanun their lord, Does it appear unto thee that David has sent comforters unto thee to honour thy father? Has not David rather sent his slaves unto thee to search the city and to spy it out and to overthrow it?

Then the two men, sons of Belial, came in and sat before him; and those men of Belial witnessed against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth blasphemed God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones that he died.

Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakens the hands of the men of war that remain in this city and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them; for this man does not seek the peace of this people, but the hurt.

And the king said, And where is thy master's son? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he abides at Jerusalem, for he said, Today shall the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father.

a false witness that speaks lies, and he that sows discord among brethren.

Murmur not against one another, brethren. He that speaks evil of his brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law; but if thou judge the law, thou art not a keeper of the law, but a judge. There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou to judge another?

He that covers a transgression seeks love, but he that repeats a matter separates very friends.

he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but is driven mad concerning questions and controversy of words, of which comes envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

And David said to Saul, Why hearest thou men's words, saying, Behold, David seeks thy hurt?

The hypocrite with his mouth destroys his neighbour, but the just are delivered with wisdom.

The hypocrite with his mouth destroys his neighbour, but the just are delivered with wisdom.

And he heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying, Jacob has taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's, he has gotten all this glory.

in which was written, It is reported among the Gentiles, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel, for which cause thou dost build the wall, that thou may be their king, according to these words.

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

Take heed each one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.

that she called unto those of her house and spoke unto them, saying, See, he has brought in a Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice; and it came to pass, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me and fled and left. And she laid up his garment by her until his lord came home. read more.
And she spoke unto him according to these words, saying, The Hebrew slave, whom thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to dishonour me; and when I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment with me and fled out.

And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast and set Naboth at the head of the people and set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out and stone him that he may die. And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them and as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them. read more.
They proclaimed a fast and set Naboth at the head of the people. Then the two men, sons of Belial, came in and sat before him; and those men of Belial witnessed against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth blasphemed God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones that he died. Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth has been stoned and is dead.

For I have heard the slander of many; fear was on every side; while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes, king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue and interpreted in the Syrian tongue. Rehum, the chancellor, and Shimshai, the scribe, wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes, the king, in this sort: Then wrote Rehum, the chancellor, and Shimshai, the scribe, and the rest of their companions, the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, and the Elamites, read more.
and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Asnappar (Sennacherib) brought over and set in the cities of Samaria and the rest that are on the other side of the river, and of Cheenet. This is the copy of the letter that they sent: Unto Artaxerxes, the king: Thy servants, the men of the other side of the river, and of Cheenet. Be it known unto the king that the Jews who came up from thee to us are come unto Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the bad city, and have founded the walls thereof and joined the foundations. Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city is rebuilt, and the walls founded, they will not pay toll, tribute, and custom, and so the revenue of the kings shall be reduced. Now because we are salted with the salt of the palace, and it is not just unto us to see the king's dishonour; therefore, we have sent to make this known unto the king, that search may be made in the book of the records of our fathers; so shalt thou find in the book of the records and know that this city is a rebellious city and hurtful unto kings and provinces and that from old time they form rebellions in the midst of her, for which cause this city was destroyed. We notify the king that if this city is built again, and its walls founded, the portion on the other side of the river shall no longer be yours.

Thou shalt not admit a false rumour; put not thine hand with the wicked to be a false witness.

Admonish them to be subject to dominion and power, and to persuade those who have authority, that they be quick unto every good work. That they speak evil of no one, that they not be contentious, but gentle, showing all meekness unto all men.

Thou didst sit and speak against thy brother; thou didst slander thine own mother's son.

And Haman said unto King Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of thy kingdom, and their laws are different from all other people; neither do they observe the king's laws: therefore, it is not profitable for the king to allow them to remain.

Thy tongue devises wickedness like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Thou dost love all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

Then they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not consider any of his words.

Then they suborned men, who said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and against God.

whom Jason has received, and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus.

And the princes of the priests accused him of many things.

LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in the mountain of thy holiness?

He that does not backbite with his tongue nor do evil to his neighbour nor take up a reproach against his neighbour.

Admonish them to be subject to dominion and power, and to persuade those who have authority, that they be quick unto every good work. That they speak evil of no one, that they not be contentious, but gentle, showing all meekness unto all men.

The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becomes holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of honesty;

And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation and virtue and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ; for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, who accused them before our God day and night.

The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified by her children.

And the men, whom Moses had sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation to murmur against him by bringing up a slander upon the land,

The wives likewise are to be honest, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

He that hides hatred has lying lips, and he that utters a slander, is a fool.

But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

Thou didst sit and speak against thy brother; thou didst slander thine own mother's son.

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and evil speaking be taken away from you, with all malice,

The north wind drives away rain, so does an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.

Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue; neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it comes.

being blasphemed, we intreat; we are made as the filth of this world and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.

The hypocrite with his mouth destroys his neighbour, but the just are delivered with wisdom.

Thou dost love all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

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