Bible Verses About Slander: Unclassified scriptures relating to

Thou shalt not receive the voice of a lie: neither shalt thou join thy hand to bear false witness for a wicked person.

If a man marry a wife, and afterwards hate her,

And seek occasions to put her away, laying to her charge a very ill name, and say: I took this woman to wife, and going in to her, I found her not a virgin:

Her father and mother shall take her, and shall bring with them the tokens of her virginity to the ancients of the city that are in the gate:

And the father shall say: I gave my daughter unto this man to wife: and because he hateth her,

He layeth to her charge a very ill name, so as to say: I found not thy daughter a virgin: and behold these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the ancients of the city:

And the ancients of that city shall take that man, and beat him,

Condemning him besides in a hundred sicles of silver, which he shall give to the damsel's father, because he hath defamed by a very ill name a virgin of Israel: and he shall have her to wife, and may not put her away all the days of his life.

Thou shalt be hidden from the scourge of the tongue: and thou shalt not fear calamity when it cometh.

Why art thou sad, O my soul? and why dost thou trouble me? Hope in God, for I will still give praise to him: the salvation of my countenance,

And my God. My soul is troubled within my self: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan and Hermoniim, from the little hill.

Deep calleth on deep, at the noise of thy flood-gates. All thy heights and thy billows have passed over me.

In the daytime the Lord hath commanded his mercy; and a canticle to him in the night. With me is prayer to the God of my life.

Deal favourably, O Lord, in thy good will with Sion; that the walls of Jerusalem may be built up.

I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: because I forgot to eat my bread.

Lying lips hide hatred: he that uttereth reproach, is foolish.

The north wind driveth away rain, as doth a sad countenance a backbiting tongue.

All these princes go out of the way, they walk deceitfully, they are brass and iron: they are all corrupted.

Let every man take heed of his neighbour, and let him not trust in any brother of his: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every friend will walk deceitfully.

Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness: full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity: whisperers,

Detractors, hateful to God, contumelious, proud, haughty, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

We are blasphemed: and we entreat. We are made as the refuse of this world, the offscouring of all, even until now.

Nor the effeminate nor liers with mankind nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards nor railers nor extortioners shall possess the kingdom of God.

For I fear lest perhaps, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found by you such as you would not. Lest perhaps contentions, envyings, animosities, dissensions, detractions, whisperings, swellings, seditions, be among you.

Detract not one another, my brethren. He that detracteth his brother, or he that judgeth his brother, detracteth the law and judgeth the law. But if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.