Bible Verses About Slander

They are corrupted, and become abominable in iniquities: there is none that doth good.

All have gone aside, they are become unprofitable together, there is none that doth good, no not one.

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

The Lord will send forth the sceptre of thy power out of Sion: rule thou in the midst of thy enemies.

With thee is the principality in the day of thy strength: in the brightness of the saints: from the womb before the day star I begot thee.

Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth: and a door round about my lips.

Six things there are, which the Lord hateth, and the seventh his soul detesteth:

A deceitful witness that uttereth lies, and him that soweth discord among brethren.

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

The dissembler with his mouth deceiveth his friend: but the just shall be delivered by knowledge.

There is that promiseth, and is pricked as it were with a sword of conscience: but the tongue of the wise is health.

A perverse man stirreth up quarrels: and one full of words separateth princes.

He that concealeth a transgression, seeketh friendships: he that repeateth it again, separateth friends.

The words of the double tongued are as if they were harmless: and they reach even to the inner parts of the bowels. Fear casteth down the slothful: and the souls of the effeminate shall be hungry.

A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour, is like a dart and a sword and a sharp arrow.

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

When the wood faileth, the fire shall go out: and when the talebearer is taken away, contentions shall cease.

The words of a talebearer are as it were simple, but they reach to the innermost parts of the belly.

If a serpent bite in silence, he is nothing better that backbiteth secretly.

The beginning of his words is folly, and the end of his talk is a mischievous error.

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.

For I heard the reproaches of many, and terror on every side: Persecute him, and let us persecute him: from all the men that were my familiars, and continued at my side: if by any means he may be deceived, and we may prevail against him, and be revenged on him.

And the princes said to the king. We beseech thee that this man may be put to death: for on purpose he weakeneth the hands of the men of war, that remain in this city, and the hands of the people, speaking to them according to these words: for this man seeketh not peace to this people, but evil.