Bible Verses About Slander

Men of slander have been in thee to shed blood, And on the mountains they have eaten in thee, Wickedness they have done in thy midst.

`Happy are ye whenever they may reproach you, and may persecute, and may say any evil thing against you falsely for my sake--

`For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a demon;

the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, Lo, a man, a glutton, and a wine-drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners, and wisdom was justified of her children.'

`And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment;

for out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, whoredoms, thefts, false witnessings, evil speakings:

And the chief priests, and the elders, and all the council, were seeking false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death,

and they did not find; and many false witnesses having come near, they did not find; and at last two false witnesses having come near,

said, `This one said, I am able to throw down the sanctuary of God, and after three days to build it.'

And the chief priests were accusing him of many things, but he answered nothing.

And questioning him also were those warring, saying, `And we, what shall we do?' and he said unto them, `Do violence to no one, nor accuse falsely, and be content with your wages.'

`The good man out of the good treasure of his heart doth bring forth that which is good; and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart doth bring forth that which is evil; for out of the abounding of the heart doth his mouth speak.

then they suborned men, saying--`We have heard him speaking evil sayings in regard to Moses and God.'

whom Jason hath received; and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying another to be king--Jesus.'

and he having been called, Tertullus began to accuse him , saying, `Much peace enjoying through thee, and worthy deeds being done to this nation through thy forethought,

for having found this man a pestilence, and moving a dissension to all the Jews through the world--a ringleader also of the sect of the Nazarenes--

having been filled with all unrighteousness, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,

evil-speakers, God-haters, insulting, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

and not, as we are evil spoken of, and as certain affirm us to say--`We may do the evil things, that the good ones may come?' whose judgment is righteous.

being spoken evil of, we entreat; as filth of the world we did become--of all things an offscouring--till now.

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, the reign of God shall inherit.

through glory and dishonour, through evil report and good report, as leading astray, and true;

for I fear lest, having come, not such as I wish I may find you, and I--I may be found by you such as ye do not wish, lest there be strifes, envyings, wraths, revelries, evil-speakings, whisperings, puffings up, insurrections,

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice,

Women--in like manner grave, not false accusers, vigilant, faithful in all things.