Bible Verses About Slander

In you, people gossip to the point of inciting bloodshed; in you are those who go to eat on the mountains; in you, they commit lewd acts;

"How blessed you are when people insult you and persecute you and tell all kinds of vicious lies about you because you follow me!

For Yochanan came, fasting, not drinking -- so they say, `He has a demon.'

The Son of Man came, eating freely and drinking wine -- so they say, `Aha! A glutton and a drunkard! A friend of tax-collectors and sinners!' Well, the proof of wisdom is in the actions it produces."

Moreover, I tell you this: on the Day of Judgment people will have to give account for every careless word they have spoken;

For out of the heart come forth wicked thoughts, murder, adultery and other kinds of sexual immorality, theft, lies, slanders. . . .

The head cohanim and the whole Sanhedrin looked for some false evidence against Yeshua, so that they might put him to death.

But they didn't find any, even though many liars came forward to give testimony. At last, however, two people came forward and said,

"This man said, `I can tear down God's Temple and build it again in three days.'"

The head cohanim too made accusations against him,

Some soldiers asked him, "What about us? What should we do?" To them he said, "Don't intimidate anyone, don't accuse people falsely, and be satisfied with your pay."

The good person produces good things from the store of good in his heart, while the evil person produces evil things from the store of evil in his heart. For his mouth speaks what overflows from his heart.

So they secretly persuaded some men to allege, “We heard him speak blasphemously against Moshe and against God.”

And Jason has let them stay in his home! All of them are defying the decrees of the Emperor; because they assert that there is another king, Yeshua!”

Sha’ul was called, and Tertullus began to make the charges: “Felix, your Excellency, it is because of you that we enjoy unbroken peace, and it is your foresight that has brought to this nation

“We have found this man a pest. He is an agitator among all the Jews throughout the world and a ringleader of the sect of the Natzratim.

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;

Indeed! Why not say (as some people slander us by claiming we do say), “Let us do evil, so that good may come of it”? Against them the judgment is a just one!

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.

through being honored and dishonored, praised and blamed, considered deceptive and sincere,

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.

Get rid of all bitterness, rage, anger, violent assertiveness and slander, along with all spitefulness.

Similarly, the wives must be of good character, not gossips, but temperate, faithful in everything.