Bible Verses About Slander

Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood; and in you they have eaten on the mountains: in your midst they have committed lewdness.

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

For Yochanan came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children. ”

I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Yeshua, that they might put him to death;

and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward,

and said, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.’”

The chief priests accused him of many things.

Soldiers also asked him, saying, “What about us? What must we do?” He said to them, “Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages.”

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”

whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Yeshua!”

When he was called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, “Seeing that by you we enjoy much peace, and that excellent measures are coming to this nation,

For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), “Let us do evil, that good may come?” Those who say so are justly condemned.

Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit the Kingdom of God.

by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;

For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.

Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.