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.
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Torrey's New Topical Textbook
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
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James 4:12 NT
Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
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He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.
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Psalms 52:2 OT
Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
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For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
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Luke 6:45 NT
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.
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Psalms 41:7 OT
All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.
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Psalms 109:3 OT
They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
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Psalms 50:20 OT
You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.
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They are all grievous rebels, going around to slander. They are bronze and iron. All of them deal corruptly.
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Jeremiah 9:4 OT
“Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer.
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With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor, but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge.
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I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ has come; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and…
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Psalms 52:4 OT
You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.
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He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.
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Titus 2:3 NT
and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good,
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Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.
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Psalms 35:11 OT
Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about.
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and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward,
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2 Peter 2:10 NT
but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;
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Jude 1:1 NT
Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:
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Romans 3:8 NT
Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), “Let’s do evil, that good may come?” Those who say so are justly condemned.
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by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;
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Psalms 38:12 OT
They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.
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Psalms 109:2 OT
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.