Bible Verses About Slander

Your tongue, as sharp as a razor, plots destruction and works deception.

You love all words that eat people up, you deceitful tongue!

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

For wicked and deceitful men have opened their mouths against me, spoken against me with lying tongues,

surrounded me with hateful words, and attacked me without cause.

This is what my adversaries want ADONAI to do, those who speak evil against me.

They have made their tongues as sharp as a snake's; viper's venom is under their lips. (Selah)

There are six things ADONAI hates, seven which he detests:

a false witness who lies with every breath, and him who sows strife among brothers.

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

With his mouth the hypocrite can ruin his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered.

Idle talk can pierce like a sword, but the tongue of the wise can heal.

A deceitful person stirs up strife, and a slanderer can separate even close friends.

He who conceals an offense promotes love, but he who harps on it can separate even close friends.

A slanderer's words are tasty morsels; they slide right down into the belly.

Like a club, a sword or a sharp arrow is a person who gives false testimony against a neighbor.

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

If there's no wood, the fire goes out; if nobody gossips, contention stops.

A slanderer's words are tasty morsels; they slide right down into the belly.

If a snake bites before it is charmed, the snake-charmer has no advantage.

What he says starts with foolishness and ends with wicked madness.

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.

I have heard many whispering their plot: "'Terror in every direction'? Denounce him! Let's denounce him!" Even all my close friends are watching for me to make a false step - "Maybe he can be tricked, then we'll get the better of him, then we'll take our revenge on him."

The leaders said to the king, "Please let this man be put to death; because by speaking such words to the soldiers left in this city and to all the people, he is demoralizing them. This man is seeking not to benefit this people, but to harm them."