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 perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.”
“Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.”
“For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him.”
“But it was you, a man like me, my companion, and my familiar friend.”
“We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God's house with company.”
“Take heed everyone of his neighbor, and don't trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.”
“For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;”
“Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests,”
“and said, "What are you willing to give me, that I should deliver him to you?" They weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.”
“From that time he sought opportunity to betray him.”