Bible Verses about “backstabbers”
The Bible contains 10 verses about backstabbers across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.”
“Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up [his] heel against me.”
“For [it was] not an enemy [that] reproached me; then I could have borne [it]: neither [was it] he that hated me [that] did magnify [himself] against me; then I would have hid myself from him:”
“But [it was] thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.”
“We took sweet counsel together, [and] walked unto the house of God in company.”
“Take ye heed every 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 fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and [that] I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest [there be] debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:”
“¶ Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests,”
“And said [unto them], What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.”
“And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.”