Bible Verses About Slander: Unclassified scriptures relating to

"You are not to repeat false rumors; do not join hands with the wicked by offering perjured testimony.

"If a man marries a woman, has sexual relations with her and then, having come to dislike her,

brings false charges against her and defames her character by saying, 'I married this woman, but when I had intercourse with her I did not find evidence that she was a virgin';

then the girl's father and mother are to take the evidence of the girl's virginity to the leaders of the town at the gate.

The girl's father will say to the leaders, 'I let my daughter marry this man, but he hates her,

so he has brought false charges that he didn't find evidence of her virginity; yet here is the evidence of my daughter's virginity'-(

)and they will lay the cloth before the town leaders.

The leaders of that town are to take the man, punish him, and fine him two-and-a-half pounds of silver shekels, which they will give to the girl's father, because he has publicly defamed a virgin of Isra'el. She will remain his wife, and he is forbidden from divorcing her as long as he lives.

You will be shielded from the lash of the tongue, and you won't have to fear destruction when it comes -

When they come to see me they speak insincerely, their hearts meanwhile gathering falsehoods; then they go out and spread bad reports.

All who hate me whisper together against me, imagining the worst about me.

"A fatal disease has attached itself to him; now that he lies ill, he will never get up."

Even my close friend, on whom I relied, who shared my table, has turned against me.

you sit and speak against your kinsman, you slander your own mother's son.

If someone slanders another in secret, I will cut him off. Haughty eyes and proud hearts I cannot abide.

He who covers up hate has lips that lie, and anyone who slanders is a fool.

The north wind brings rain and a backbiting tongue, angry looks.

All of them are total rebels, spreading slanderous gossip; they are bronze and iron, [inferior metals,] all of them corrupt.

Everyone, be on guard against your neighbor, don't trust even a brother; for every brother is out to trick you, and every neighbor goes around gossiping.

They are filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and vice; stuffed with jealousy, murder, quarrelling, dishonesty and ill-will; they are gossips,

slanderers, haters of God; they are insolent, arrogant and boastful; they plan evil schemes; they disobey their parents;

when we are slandered, we continue making our appeal. We are the world’s garbage, the scum of the earth — yes, to this moment!

who steal, who are greedy, who get drunk, who assail people with contemptuous language, who rob — none of them will share in the Kingdom of God.

For I am afraid of coming and finding you not the way I want you to be, and also of not being found the way you want me to be. I am afraid of finding quarreling and jealousy, anger and rivalry, slander and gossip, arrogance and disorder.

Brothers, stop speaking against each other! Whoever speaks against a brother or judges a brother is speaking against Torah and judging Torah. And if you judge Torah, you are not a doer of what Torah says, but a judge.