Bible Verses About Slander

Slanderous men have been in thee to shed blood; and in thee they have eaten upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they have committed lewdness.

Blessed are ye when men shall reproach you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a demon.

The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold, a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners! And wisdom is justified by her works.

And I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings:

Now the chief priests and the whole council sought false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death;

and they found it not, though many false witnesses came. But afterward came two,

and said, This man said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.

And the chief priests accused him of many things.

And soldiers also asked him, saying, And we, what must we do? And he said unto them, Extort from no man by violence, neither accuse any one wrongfully; and be content with your wages.

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and the evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth that which is evil: for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

Then they suborned men, who said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.

whom Jason hath received: and these all act contrary to the decrees of Cæsar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus.

And when he was called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, Seeing that by thee we enjoy much peace, and that by thy providence evils are corrected for this nation,

For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:

being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

and why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do evil, that good may come? whose condemnation is just.

being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, even until now.

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;

For I fear, lest by any means, when I come, I should find you not such as I would, and should myself be found of you such as ye would not; lest by any means there should be strife, jealousy, wraths, factions, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice:

Women in like manner must be grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.