Slander
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Slander’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
Showing 25–48 of 165 verses grouped under this topic.
Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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1 Peter 3:16 NT
having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.
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Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.
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Matthew 5:11 NT
“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
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Psalms 15:1 OT
Yahweh, who shall dwell in your sanctuary? Who shall live on your holy hill?
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Psalms 15:3 OT
he who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;
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David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to men’s words, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you?’
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The north wind produces rain; so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.
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A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.
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He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.
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The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.
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The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, they go down into the innermost parts.
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For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.
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a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.
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Psalms 31:13 OT
For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.
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Ezekiel 22:9 OT
Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.
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Job 5:21 OT
You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes.
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Psalms 140:3 OT
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips.
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If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer’s tongue.
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The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.
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I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.
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If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing, then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days; and the…
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Exodus 23:1 OT
“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
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If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, hates her, accuses her of shameful things, gives her a bad name, and says, “I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn’t find in her the tokens of virginity;” then the young lady’s…
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If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it. All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me. “An evil disease”, they say, “has afflicted…