Slander

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• 1 Peter 4:4 NT

  They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming.

• Psalms 34:13 OT

  Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

• 1 Peter 3:10 NT

  For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

• 1 Peter 2:1 NT

  Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

• Titus 3:1 NT

  Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

• Titus 3:2 NT

  to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

• 1 Peter 2:12 NT

  having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

• 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.

• 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.

• Psalms 15:1 OT

  Yahweh, who shall dwell in your sanctuary? Who shall live on your holy hill?

• 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;

• 1 Samuel 24:9 OT

  David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to men’s words, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you?’

• Proverbs 25:23 OT

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

• Proverbs 16:28 OT

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

• Proverbs 18:8 OT

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

• Proverbs 26:22 OT

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

• Proverbs 26:20 OT

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

• 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.

• 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.

• Job 5:21 OT

  You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

• Psalms 140:3 OT

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

• Ecclesiastes 10:13 OT

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

• Matthew 12:36 NT

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

• James 1:26 NT

  If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.