23 Bible Verses about Slander

And Eli will say to her, How long wilt thou be intoxicated? remove thy wine from thee.

And also thou didst set up prophets to call upon thee in Jerusalem, saying, A king in Judah: and now it will be heard by the king according to these words: and now come and we will counsel together.

But send forth now thy hand and touch upon his bone and upon his flesh, if he will not bless thee to thy face.

For thou wilt take a pledge of thy brethren, in vain, and the garments of the naked thou wilt strip of

And he will be in the gate of Benjamin, and there a master of the ward and his name Irijah son of Shelemiah, son of Hananiah; and he will take Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest to the Chaldeans.

The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man a glutton, and wine drinker, a friend of publicans and sinful; and wisdom has been justified from her children.

But the Pharisees said, By the chief of demons he casts out demons.

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

And set false witnesses, saying, This man ceases not speaking defaming words against this holy place, and the law:

And others mocking. said, That they are filled with new wine.

Slandering his neighbor in secret, him will I cut off: him being lofty of eyes and broad of heart, with him I will not eat

Watch ye each from his neighbor, and to any brother ye shall not trust, for every brother deceiving, will deceive, and every neighbor will go tale-bearing.

For I heard the slander of many sojourning round about: in their sitting together against me they purposed to take away my soul

He covering hatred with lips of falsehood, and he bringing forth slander, is foolish.

With the mouth the profane will destroy his neighbor: and by knowledge, shall the just one be delivered.

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

And the chiefs of the sons of Ammon will say to Hanun their lord, Is David honoring thy father in thine eyes, that he sent comforters to thee? is it not for the sake of searching out the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it, David sent his servants to thee?

But send forth now thy band and tough upon all which is to him, if he will not bless thee upon thy face.

Thou wilt sit, and thou wilt speak against thy brother; against the son of thy, mother thou wilt give a stumbling-block.

And Amaziah priest of the house of God, will send to Jeroboam, kind of Israel, saying, Amos conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land will not be able to endure all his words.

He covering hatred with lips of falsehood, and he bringing forth slander, is foolish.

And Eli will say to her, How long wilt thou be intoxicated? remove thy wine from thee.

And also thou didst set up prophets to call upon thee in Jerusalem, saying, A king in Judah: and now it will be heard by the king according to these words: and now come and we will counsel together.

But send forth now thy hand and touch upon his bone and upon his flesh, if he will not bless thee to thy face.

For thou wilt take a pledge of thy brethren, in vain, and the garments of the naked thou wilt strip of

And he will be in the gate of Benjamin, and there a master of the ward and his name Irijah son of Shelemiah, son of Hananiah; and he will take Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest to the Chaldeans.

The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man a glutton, and wine drinker, a friend of publicans and sinful; and wisdom has been justified from her children.

But the Pharisees said, By the chief of demons he casts out demons.

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

And set false witnesses, saying, This man ceases not speaking defaming words against this holy place, and the law:

And others mocking. said, That they are filled with new wine.

Slandering his neighbor in secret, him will I cut off: him being lofty of eyes and broad of heart, with him I will not eat

Watch ye each from his neighbor, and to any brother ye shall not trust, for every brother deceiving, will deceive, and every neighbor will go tale-bearing.

For I heard the slander of many sojourning round about: in their sitting together against me they purposed to take away my soul

He covering hatred with lips of falsehood, and he bringing forth slander, is foolish.

With the mouth the profane will destroy his neighbor: and by knowledge, shall the just one be delivered.

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

And the chiefs of the sons of Ammon will say to Hanun their lord, Is David honoring thy father in thine eyes, that he sent comforters to thee? is it not for the sake of searching out the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it, David sent his servants to thee?

But send forth now thy band and tough upon all which is to him, if he will not bless thee upon thy face.

Thou wilt sit, and thou wilt speak against thy brother; against the son of thy, mother thou wilt give a stumbling-block.

And Amaziah priest of the house of God, will send to Jeroboam, kind of Israel, saying, Amos conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land will not be able to endure all his words.

And they making war asked him, saying, And what shall do? And he said to them, Shake none violently, neither make slanderous accusation; and be content with your pay.

Thou shalt not testify against thy friend for falsehood.

And thou shalt not speak false testimony against thy friend:

They are all turning aside, degenerate shoots, going about tale-bearing: brass and iron, they are destroyers all of them.

Thou wilt sit, and thou wilt speak against thy brother; against the son of thy, mother thou wilt give a stumbling-block.

Watch ye each from his neighbor, and to any brother ye shall not trust, for every brother deceiving, will deceive, and every neighbor will go tale-bearing.

Let all harshness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and slander, be put away from you, with all badness:

Speak not against one another, brethren. He speaking against a brother, and judging his brother, speaks against the law, and judges the law: and if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

Thou shalt not take up a false report: thou shalt not put thy hand with the unjust one to be a witness of wrong.

In which they are astonished, you not running together in the same pouring out of lavish expense, blaspheming:

My friends and my neighbors will stand from before my stroke, and my kindred stood from far off.

For the mouth of the unjust, and the mouth of deceit opened against me; they eke with me the tongue of false-hood.

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

Then said Pilate to him, Art thou not then king? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am king. For this was I born, and for this came I into the world, that I testify to the truth. Every one being of the truth hears my voice.

Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. And the soldiers having twined a crown of thorns, put upon his head, and they put round him a purple robe, And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they gave him blows with a rod. read more.
Then again went out Pilate without, and says to them, See, I lead him to you without, that ye might know that in him I find no fault. Then went forth Jesus without, bearing a crown of thorns, and a purple garment. And he says to them, Behold the man!

They sharpened their tongue as a serpent; the poison of asps under their lips. Silence,

Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, they bent their arrows a bitter word:

For I heard the slander of many sojourning round about: in their sitting together against me they purposed to take away my soul

They will widen their mouth upon me: they said, Aha! aha our eye saw it.

Mine enemies will say evil to me: When shall he die, and his name perish?

For I heard the slander of many, terror from round about Announce ye, and we will announce. Every man of my peace watching my halting: perhaps he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we will take our vengeance of him.

Being defamed, we entreat: as the filth of the world were we become, the offscouring of all until now.

Slandering his neighbor in secret, him will I cut off: him being lofty of eyes and broad of heart, with him I will not eat

If a witness of wrong shall rise up against a man to testify apostasy against him; And the two men to whom is the contention stood before Jehovah, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days; And the judges sought out diligently; and behold, a witness of falsehood, the witness of falsehood testified against his brother; read more.
And ye did to him as he purposed to do to his brother: and put away evil from the midst of thee And they remaining shall hear, and fear, and shall no more add to do according to this evil word in the midst of thee. And thine eye shall not pity; soul for soul, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot

For I am afraid, lest somehow, having come, I find you not such; as I will, and I find you such as ye wish not: lest somehow, strifes, jealousies, wraths, intrigues, calumnies, whisperings, inflations, derangements:

Having been filled with all injustice, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, badness; full of envy, slaughter, strife, deceit, malignity,

For I am afraid, lest somehow, having come, I find you not such; as I will, and I find you such as ye wish not: lest somehow, strifes, jealousies, wraths, intrigues, calumnies, whisperings, inflations, derangements:

Whisperers, slanderers, odious to God, abusers of power, proud, tumultuous, inventors of injuries, disobedient to parents,

They sharpened their tongue as a serpent; the poison of asps under their lips. Silence,

If a serpent will bite without magic; and no pre?minence to the possessor of the tongue.

A mallet and a sword and an arrow sharpened, the man answering against his neighbor testimony of falsehood.

There is he talking idly as the piercings of the sword: and the tongue of the wise is healing.

He covering transgression seeks love; and he perverting in the word, separates a, friend.

A man of perverseness shall send forth strife: and a tale-bearer separates friends.

The words of the tale-bearer as dainty morsels, and they will go down to the chambers of the belly.

The words of a tale-bearer as dainty morsels, and they will go down to the chambers of the belly.

And not, (as we are defamed, and some have declared us to say,) That we should do evil things, that good things might come: whose judgment is just.

Through glory and ignominy, through slander and applause: as erring, and true;

These six Jehovah hated, and seven an abomination of his soul:

A witness of falsehood, breathing out lies, and sending strife between brethren.

Let all harshness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and slander, be put away from you, with all badness:

Therefore setting aside all wickedness, and all artifice, and dissimulation; and envies, and all calumnies,

Having a good consciousness; that, in what they speak evil against you, as doing evil, they threatening your good turning round in Christ should be ashamed.

Having your turning back good in the nations: that, in what they speak against you as doing evil, from good works, they having beheld, might praise God in the day of inspection.

Witnesses of wrong will rise up; they will ask me what I knew not.

And they found not: and many false witnesses having come near, they found not.

For I heard the slander of many sojourning round about: in their sitting together against me they purposed to take away my soul

Men of slander were in thee to pour forth blood: and they ate upon the mountains in thee: they did wickedness in the midst of thee.

For he wishing to love life, and to see good days, let him cause his tongue to cease from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit:

Watch thy tongue from evil; and thy lips from speaking deceit

And I say to you, That every idle word which men speak, they shill return word for it in the day of judgment.

If any among you seem to be religious, bridling not his tongue, but deceiving his heart, the religion of this one vain.

Mine enemies will say evil to me: When shall he die, and his name perish?

This the doing of those lying in wait for me from Jehovah, and speaking evil against my soul.

For from the heart come forth evil reflections, slaughters, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, defamations:

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart, brings forward the good thing; and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart, brings forward the evil thing: for out of the abundance of the heart does his month speak.

For he wishing to love life, and to see good days, let him cause his tongue to cease from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit:

Watch thy tongue from evil; and thy lips from speaking deceit

Together, all hating me, will whisper against me: against one they will purpose evil to me.

And with words of hatred they surrounded me, and they will war with me gratuitously.

Chanting of David. O Jehovah, who shall sojourn in thy tent? who shall dwell in thy holy mountain?

Slandering not with his tongue, not doing evil to his neighbor, lifting up no reproach against his neighbor.

And chiefly them going after the flesh in eager desire of defilement, and despising dominion. Self-sufficient, rash men, they tremble not, defaming glories.

And likewise indeed these dreaming truly defile the flesh, and despise dominion, and defame glories.

And Mephibosheth son of Saul, came down to the meeting of the king, and he did not his feet, and he did not his beard, and his garments he washed not from the day the king went till the day in which he came in peace. And it will be when he came to Jerusalem to the meeting of the king, and the king will say to him, Wherefore wentest thou not with me, Mephibosheth? And he will say, My lord the king, my servant deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle for me the ass, and I will ride upon it, and I will go to the king; for thy servant is lame. read more.
And he will slander against thy servant to my lord the king; and my lord the king as a messenger of God: and do thou the good in thine eyes. For was not all my father's house but men of death before my lord the king? and thou wilt set thy servant among those eating at thy table. And what is there to me yet of right and to cry yet to the king? And the king will say to him, Wherefore wilt thou speak yet thy words? I said, Thou and Ziba shall divide the field. And Mephibosheth will say to the king, Also he shall take all, after that my lord the king came in peace to his house.

And the king will say, And where the son of thy lord? And Ziba will say to the king: Behold, he will dwell in Jerusalem: for he said, This day the house of Israel will turn back to me the kingdom of my father.

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

Then answered the Jews, and said to him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a demon?

Then said the Jews to him, Now we have known that thou hast a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If any keep my word, he shall never taste of death.

For this therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, for not only did he loose the sabbath, but also he called God his own Father, making himself equal to God.

Ye have heard the blasphemy; How does it appear to you? And they all condemned him to be liable to the penalty of death.

If a serpent will bite without magic; and no pre?minence to the possessor of the tongue.

Being defamed, we entreat: as the filth of the world were we become, the offscouring of all until now.

The beginning of the words of his mouth, folly: and the latter state of his mouth the folly of evil.

And Doeg the Edomite will answer, and he being set over the servants of Saul, and he will say, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob to Ahimelech, son of Ahitub. And he will ask for him in Jehovah, and he gave to him provision, and the sword of Goliah the rover he gave to him. And the king will send to call Ahimelech, son of Ahitub the priest, and all his father's house, the priests which are in Nob: and all of them will come to the king.

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He has an evil spirit. The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man a glutton, and wine drinker, a friend of publicans and sinful; and wisdom has been justified from her children.

And I heard a great voice saying in heaven, Now was salvation and power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ for the accuser of our brethren was cast down, he accusing them before our God, day and night.

Thou shalt not go a slanderer among thy people; thou shalt not stand upon the blood of thy neighbor: I Jehovah.

And not, (as we are defamed, and some have declared us to say,) That we should do evil things, that good things might come: whose judgment is just.

Through glory and ignominy, through slander and applause: as erring, and true;

And many other things, blaspheming, they spake against him.

And they were strong, saying, That he stirs up the people, teaching through the whole of Judea, beginning from Galilee to here.

In the ceasing of wood, fire will go out: and in not being a tale-bearer, strife will subside.

And at the same time also they learn to be idle, going round about the houses; and not only idle, but also indulging in idle talk, and occupied with unnecessary things, speaking things not becoming.

Having a good consciousness; that, in what they speak evil against you, as doing evil, they threatening your good turning round in Christ should be ashamed.

Having your turning back good in the nations: that, in what they speak against you as doing evil, from good works, they having beheld, might praise God in the day of inspection.

The north wind will set free the rain, and an angry face, a hidden tongue.

He covering hatred with lips of falsehood, and he bringing forth slander, is foolish.

Wives also grave, not accusers, sober, faithful in all things.

And at the same time also they learn to be idle, going round about the houses; and not only idle, but also indulging in idle talk, and occupied with unnecessary things, speaking things not becoming.

And the chiefs of the sons of Ammon will say to Hanun their lord, Is David honoring thy father in thine eyes, that he sent comforters to thee? is it not for the sake of searching out the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it, David sent his servants to thee?

And two men will come, sons of Belial, and they will set before him: and the men of Belial will testify against Naboth before the people, saying, Naboth praised Jehovah and the king. And they will bring him without the city, and stone him with stones, and he will die.

And the chiefs will say to the king, Now shall this man be put to death: for thus he is relaxing the hands of the men of war remaining in this city, and the hands of all the people to speak to them according to these words; for this man sought not for peace to this people but for evil.

And the king will say, And where the son of thy lord? And Ziba will say to the king: Behold, he will dwell in Jerusalem: for he said, This day the house of Israel will turn back to me the kingdom of my father.

A witness of falsehood, breathing out lies, and sending strife between brethren.

Speak not against one another, brethren. He speaking against a brother, and judging his brother, speaks against the law, and judges the law: and if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. There is one legislator, able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another

He covering transgression seeks love; and he perverting in the word, separates a, friend.

He has been proud, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and disputes of words, of which is envy, strife, slanders, evil conjectures,

And David will say to Saul, Why wilt thou hear the words of man, saying, Behold, David is seeking thy hurt?

With the mouth the profane will destroy his neighbor: and by knowledge, shall the just one be delivered.

With the mouth the profane will destroy his neighbor: and by knowledge, shall the just one be delivered.

And he will hear the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob took all which was to our father, and from what was to our father he made all this multitude.

Being written in it, It was heard in the nations, and Geshem said, Thou and the Jews are reckoning to rebel: for this thou buildest the wall, and thou to be to them for king according to these words.

Happy are ye, when they shall upbraid you, and drive you out, and say every evil word against you, lying, for my sake.

Watch ye each from his neighbor, and to any brother ye shall not trust, for every brother deceiving, will deceive, and every neighbor will go tale-bearing.

And she will call the men of her house and will say to them, saying, See ye, he brought to us a Hebrew man to mock us: he came to me to lie with me, and I shall cry with a great voice. And it will be as he heard me that I lifted up my voice and I will cry, and he will let go his garment by me, will flee and come forth without And she will leave his garment by her till his lord came to his house. read more.
And she will speak to him according to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant which thou broughtest to us, came in to me to mock me. And it will be as I lifted up my voice, and I will cry out, and he will let go his garment by me and will flee without

And she will write in the letters, Saying, Call a fast; set Naboth in the head of the people: And set two men, sons of Belial, over against him, and they shall bear witness, saying, Thou didst praise God and the king. And they shall bring him forth and stone him, and he shall die. And the men of his city, the old men and the nobles, who were dwelling in his city, will do as Jezebel sent to them, according to what was written in the letters which she sent to them. read more.
They called a fast; they will set Naboth upon the head of the people. And two men will come, sons of Belial, and they will set before him: and the men of Belial will testify against Naboth before the people, saying, Naboth praised Jehovah and the king. And they will bring him without the city, and stone him with stones, and he will die. And they will send to Jezebel, saying, Naboth was stoned, and he will die.

For I heard the slander of many sojourning round about: in their sitting together against me they purposed to take away my soul

And in the days of Arthasatha, wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his colleagues, to Arthasatha, king of Persia; and the writing of the letter' being written in Syriac, and being interpreted in Syriac. Rehum, lord of judgment, and Shimshai, the scribe, wrote one epistle against Jerusalem to Arthasatha the king, thus: Then Rehum lord of judment, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their colleagues, the Danites and the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babelites, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, the Elamites, read more.
And the rest of the nations that the great and honored Asnapper carried into exile, and he caused them to dwell in the cities of Shomeron, and the rest beyond the river, and thus. This the copy of the epistle that they sent to him to Arthasatha the king; thy servants the men beyond the river, and thus. To be known to the king that the Jews who went up from with thee to us, came to Jerusalem, building the perverse and bad city, and they completed its wall, and they will repair its foundations. Now to be known to the king that if this city shall be built and the walls be completed, tribute, excise, and toll, they will not give, and in the end it will endamage the kings. Now for the cause that we were salted with the salt of the temple, and not being fit to us to see the king's nakedness, for this we sent and made known to the king; That it shall be sought in the book of the records of thy fathers: and thou wilt find in the book of the records, and thou wilt know that this city a city perverse and endamaging kings and provinces, and working rebellion in the midst of it from days forever: for this, this city was laid waste. We making known to the king that if this city shall be built, and its walls be completed, for this cause a portion beyond the river shall not be to thee.

Thou shalt not take up a false report: thou shalt not put thy hand with the unjust one to be a witness of wrong.

Remind them to be subordinate to beginnings and powers, to yield obedience to authority, to be prepared for every good work, To slander none, to be without fighting, equitable, showing all meekness to all men.

Thou wilt sit, and thou wilt speak against thy brother; against the son of thy, mother thou wilt give a stumbling-block.

And Haman will say to king Ahasuerus, There is one people scattered and dispersed between the peoples in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws different from all people; they not doing the laws of the king: and it not being suitable to the king to suffer them.

Thy tongue will purpose mischief as a razor being sharpened, working deceit.

Thou lovedst all words of destruction, a tongue of deceit

And they will say, Come, and we will purpose purposes against Jeremiah; for law shall not perish from the priest, and counsel from the wise, and the word from the prophet Come, and we will strike him with the tongue, and we will not attend to any of his words.

Then they put under men, saying, That we have heard him speaking defaming words against Moses, and God.

Which Jason has received: and these all do opposite to Caesar's enactments, saying, There is another king, Jesus.

And the chief priests accused him much.

Chanting of David. O Jehovah, who shall sojourn in thy tent? who shall dwell in thy holy mountain?

Slandering not with his tongue, not doing evil to his neighbor, lifting up no reproach against his neighbor.

Remind them to be subordinate to beginnings and powers, to yield obedience to authority, to be prepared for every good work, To slander none, to be without fighting, equitable, showing all meekness to all men.

The aged women likewise, becoming holy in a serene state of mind, not accusers, not slaves to much wine, teachers of good;

And I heard a great voice saying in heaven, Now was salvation and power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ for the accuser of our brethren was cast down, he accusing them before our God, day and night.

The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man a glutton, and wine drinker, a friend of publicans and sinful; and wisdom has been justified from her children.

And the men whom Moses sent to search out the land, and they will turn back and will murmur against him to all the assembly, to bring forth slander upon the land.

Wives also grave, not accusers, sober, faithful in all things.

He covering hatred with lips of falsehood, and he bringing forth slander, is foolish.

And I say to you, That every idle word which men speak, they shill return word for it in the day of judgment.

Thou wilt sit, and thou wilt speak against thy brother; against the son of thy, mother thou wilt give a stumbling-block.

Let all harshness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and slander, be put away from you, with all badness:

The north wind will set free the rain, and an angry face, a hidden tongue.

In the scourge of the tongue thou shalt be hid, and thou shalt not be afraid of desolation when it shall come.

Being defamed, we entreat: as the filth of the world were we become, the offscouring of all until now.

With the mouth the profane will destroy his neighbor: and by knowledge, shall the just one be delivered.

Thou lovedst all words of destruction, a tongue of deceit

Happy are ye, when they shall upbraid you, and drive you out, and say every evil word against you, lying, for my sake.