Bible Verses about “backstabbing”

“‹But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;›”

“But ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:”

“As free, and not using [your] liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.”

“Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.”

“Honour all [men]. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.”

“¶ Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;”

“Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.”

“For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:”

“As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:”

“For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:”

“Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.”

“¶ Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,”

“Dearly beloved, I beseech [you] as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;”

“¶ To whom coming, [as unto] a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, [and] precious,”

“Servants, [be] subject to [your] masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.”

“For what glory [is it], if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer [for it], ye take it patiently, this [is] acceptable with God.”

“Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by [your] good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.”

“If so be ye have tasted that the Lord [is] gracious.”

“For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.”

“Which in time past [were] not a people, but [are] now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.”

“Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.”

“For this [is] thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.”

“Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed [himself] to him that judgeth righteously:”

“Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:”

“A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.”

“And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, [even to them] which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.”

“Unto you therefore which believe [he is] precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,”

“¶ A false witness shall not be unpunished, and [he that] speaketh lies shall not escape.”

“Faithful [are] the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy [are] deceitful.”

“¶ ‹I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.›”

“[Whose] hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the [whole] congregation.”

“‹Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am› [he].”

“‹Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.›”

“When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, and said, ‹Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.›”

“Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.”

“For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man's enemies [are] the men of his own house.”

“Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up [his] heel against me.”

“¶ He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him;”

“When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for [there are] seven abominations in his heart.”

“For as he thinketh in his heart, so [is] he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart [is] not with thee.”

“The morsel [which] thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.”

“¶ Eat thou not the bread of [him that hath] an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:”

“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.”

“But Jesus said unto him, ‹Judas, betrayest thou the Son of man with a kiss?›”

“¶ And while he yet spake, behold a multitude, and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and drew near unto Jesus to kiss him.”

“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.”

“¶ 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.”