Bible Verses About Slander

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.

I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.

for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.

They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

This is the reward of my adversaries from the LORD, of those who speak evil against my soul.

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips. Selah.

There are six things which the LORD hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:

a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.

With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor, but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge.

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.

A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.

The north wind produces rain: so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.

For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.

The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, they go down into the innermost parts.

If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer’s tongue.

The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

They are all grievous rebels, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.

Take heed everyone of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.

For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall; perhaps he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

Then the princes said to the king, “Please let this man be put to death; because he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them: for this man doesn’t seek the welfare of this people, but the hurt.”