Bible Verses about “slander”
The Bible contains 22 verses about slander across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.”
“For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,”
“Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:”
“Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.”
“¶ This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.”
“Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;”
“Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,”
“‹But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.›”
“‹Blessed are ye, when› [men] ‹shall revile you, and persecute› [you], ‹and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.›”
“To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, [but] gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.”
“¶ Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,”
“¶ Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.”
“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.”
“¶ Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of [his] brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.”
“A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.”
“¶ Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.”
“¶ He that goeth about [as] a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.”
“They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.”
“‹A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.›”
“¶ He that hideth hatred [with] lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, [is] a fool.”
“¶ An hypocrite with [his] mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.”
“Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.”