'Slander' in the Bible
You must not go about spreading slander among your people; you must not jeopardize your neighbor’s life; I am Yahweh.
You will be safe from slanderand not fear destruction when it comes.
who does not slander with his tongue,who does not harm his friendor discredit his neighbor,
The one who conceals hatred has lying lips,and whoever spreads slander is a fool.
Don’t slander a servant to his masteror he will curse you, and you will become guilty.
All are stubborn rebelsspreading slander.They are bronze and iron;all of them are corrupt.
Everyone has to be on guard against his friend.Don’t trust any brother,for every brother will certainly deceive,and every friend spread slander.
The slander and murmuring of my opponentsattack me all day long.
There are men within you who slander in order to shed blood. People who live in you eat at the mountain shrines; they commit immoral acts within you.
therefore, prophesy and say: This is what the Lord God says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you from every side, so that you became a possession for the rest of the nations and an object of people’s gossip and slander,
You are blessed when people hate you,when they exclude you, insult you,and slander your name as evilbecause of the Son of Man.
through glory and dishonor,through slander and good report;as deceivers yet true;
For I fear that perhaps when I come I will not find you to be what I want, and I may not be found by you to be what you want; there may be quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.
All bitterness, anger and wrath, shouting and slander must be removed from you, along with all malice.
But now you must also put away all the following: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and filthy language from your mouth.
to slander no one, to avoid fighting, and to be kind, always showing gentleness to all people.
So rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander.
So they are surprised that you don’t plunge with them into the same flood of wild living—and they slander you.
I know your affliction and poverty, yet you are rich. I know the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.