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 kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.”
“For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,”
“Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.”
“holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.”
“But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.”
“traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;”
“without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,”
“I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.”
“"Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.”
“to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.”
“Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,”
“having a good conscience; that, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.”
“"You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.”
“Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.”
“A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.”
“"You shall not spread a false report. Don't join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.”
“He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don't keep company with him who opens wide his lips.”
“They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.”
“The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.”
“He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.”
“With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor, but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge.”
“I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won't tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.”