ACCUSATION, FALSE

Passages on this topic · 122

• Genesis 39:7

  After these things, his master’s wife set her eyes on Joseph; and she said, “Lie with me.”

• Genesis 39:8

  But he refused, and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, my master doesn’t know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand.

• Genesis 39:9

  No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”

• Genesis 39:10

  As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he didn’t listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her.

• Genesis 39:11

  About this time, he went into the house to do his work, and there were none of the men of the house inside.

• Genesis 39:12

  She caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me!” He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.

• Genesis 39:13

  When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and had run outside,

• Genesis 39:14

  she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, “Behold, he has brought in a Hebrew to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice.

• Genesis 39:15

  When he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment by me, and ran outside.”

• Genesis 39:16

  She laid up his garment by her, until his master came home.

• Genesis 39:17

  She spoke to him according to these words, saying, “The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me,

• Genesis 39:18

  and as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment by me, and ran outside.”

• Genesis 39:19

  When his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, “This is what your servant did to me,” his wrath was kindled.

• Genesis 39:20

  Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.

• Genesis 42:9

  Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, “You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land.”

• Genesis 42:10

  They said to him, “No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.

• Genesis 42:11

  We are all one man’s sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies.”

• Genesis 42:12

  He said to them, “No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!”

• Genesis 42:13

  They said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is today with our father, and one is no more.”

• Genesis 42:14

  Joseph said to them, “It is like I told you, saying, ‘You are spies!’

• Exodus 23:1

  “You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

• Exodus 23:7

  “Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.

• Leviticus 19:16

  “‘You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people. “‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.

• Numbers 16:3

  They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Yahweh is among them! Why do you lift yourselves up above Yahweh’s assembly?”

• Numbers 16:13

  Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must also make yourself a prince over us?

• 1 Samuel 22:11

  Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests who were in Nob; and they all came to the king.

• 1 Samuel 22:12

  Saul said, “Hear now, you son of Ahitub.” He answered, “Here I am, my lord.”

• 1 Samuel 22:13

  Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as it is today?”

• 1 Samuel 22:14

  Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, “Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, and is taken into your council, and is honorable in your house?

• 1 Samuel 22:15

  Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? Be it far from me! Don’t let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for your servant knows nothing of all this, less or more.”

• 1 Samuel 22:16

  The king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all your father’s house.”

• 2 Samuel 3:24

  Then Joab came to the king, and said, “What have you done? Behold, Abner came to you. Why is it that you have sent him away, and he is already gone?

• 2 Samuel 3:25

  You know Abner the son of Ner. He came to deceive you, and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you do.”

• 2 Samuel 3:26

  When Joab had come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the well of Sirah; but David didn’t know it.

• 2 Samuel 3:27

  When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

• 2 Samuel 10:3

  But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, “Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Hasn’t David sent his servants to you to search the city, to spy it out, and to overthrow it?”

• 1 Kings 18:17

  When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel?”

• 1 Kings 18:18

  He answered, “I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your father’s house, in that you have forsaken Yahweh’s commandments, and you have followed the Baals.

• 1 Kings 21:10

  Set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, ‘You cursed God and the king!’ Then carry him out, and stone him to death.”

• 1 Kings 21:13

  The two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him. The base fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones.

• Ezra 4:6

  In the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.

• Ezra 4:7

  In the days of Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his companions, wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in Syrian, and delivered in the Syrian language.

• Ezra 4:8

  Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king as follows,

• Ezra 4:9

  then Rehum the chancellor, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions, the Dinaites, and the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Shushanchites, the Dehaites, the Elamites,

• Ezra 4:10

  and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnappar brought over, and set in the city of Samaria, and in the rest of the country beyond the River, and so forth, wrote.

• Ezra 4:11

  This is the copy of the letter that they sent: To King Artaxerxes, From your servants the men beyond the River.

• Ezra 4:12

  Be it known to the king that the Jews who came up from you have come to us to Jerusalem. They are building the rebellious and bad city, and have finished the walls, and repaired the foundations.

• Ezra 4:13

  Be it known now to the king that if this city is built and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and in the end it will be hurtful to the kings.

• Ezra 4:14

  Now because we eat the salt of the palace, and it is not appropriate for us to see the king’s dishonor, therefore we have sent and informed the king,

• Ezra 4:15

  that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers. You will see in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful to kings and provinces, and that they have started rebellions within it in the past. That is why this city was destroyed.

• Ezra 4:16

  We inform the king that, if this city is built and the walls finished, then you will have no possession beyond the River.

• Nehemiah 6:6

  in which was written, “It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel. Because of that, you are building the wall. You would be their king, according to these words.

• Nehemiah 6:7

  You have also appointed prophets to proclaim of you at Jerusalem, saying, ‘There is a king in Judah!’ Now it will be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together.”

• Nehemiah 6:8

  Then I sent to him, saying, “There are no such things done as you say, but you imagine them out of your own heart.”

• Job 1:9

  Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

• Job 1:10

  Haven’t you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

• Job 2:4

  Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

• Job 2:5

  But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”

• Psalms 41:5

  My enemies speak evil against me: “When will he die, and his name perish?”

• Psalms 41:6

  If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

• Psalms 41:7

  All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.

• Psalms 41:8

  “An evil disease”, they say, “has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.”

• Psalms 41:9

  Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

• Jeremiah 26:8

  When Jeremiah had finished speaking all that Yahweh had commanded him to speak to all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, “You shall surely die!

• Jeremiah 26:11

  Then spoke the priests and the prophets to the princes and to all the people, saying, “This man is worthy of death; for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.”

• Jeremiah 37:13

  When he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he laid hold on Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are defecting to the Chaldeans!”

• Jeremiah 37:14

  Then Jeremiah said, “That is false! I am not falling away to the Chaldeans.” But he didn’t listen to him; so Irijah siezed Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.

• Jeremiah 43:2

  then Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men spoke, saying to Jeremiah, “You speak falsely. Yahweh our God has not sent you to say, ‘You shall not go into Egypt to live there;’

• Jeremiah 43:3

  but Baruch the son of Neriah has turned you against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may put us to death, and carry us away captive to Babylon.”

• Amos 7:10

  Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the middle of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.

• Amos 7:11

  For Amos says, ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.’”

• Matthew 1:19

  Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.

• Matthew 5:11

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

• Matthew 9:34

  But the Pharisees said, “By the prince of the demons, he casts out demons.”

• Matthew 10:25

  It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!

• Matthew 12:2

  But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said to him, “Behold, your disciples do what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.”

• Matthew 12:3

  But he said to them, “Haven’t you read what David did, when he was hungry, and those who were with him;

• Matthew 12:4

  how he entered into God’s house, and ate the show bread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for those who were with him, but only for the priests?

• Matthew 12:5

  Or have you not read in the law, that on the Sabbath day, the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are guiltless?

• Matthew 12:6

  But I tell you that one greater than the temple is here.

• Matthew 12:7

  But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless.

• Matthew 12:8

  For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”

• Matthew 12:9

  He departed there, and went into their synagogue.

• Matthew 12:10

  And behold there was a man with a withered hand. They asked him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day?” that they might accuse him.

• Matthew 12:11

  He said to them, “What man is there among you, who has one sheep, and if this one falls into a pit on the Sabbath day, won’t he grab on to it, and lift it out?

• Matthew 12:12

  Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day.”

• Matthew 12:13

  Then he told the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out; and it was restored whole, just like the other.

• Matthew 12:14

  But the Pharisees went out, and conspired against him, how they might destroy him.

• Matthew 26:59

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

• Matthew 26:60

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

• Matthew 26:61

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

• Mark 3:22

  The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebul,” and, “By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons.”

• Mark 14:53

  They led Jesus away to the high priest. All the chief priests, the elders, and the scribes came together with him.

• Mark 14:54

  Peter had followed him from a distance, until he came into the court of the high priest. He was sitting with the officers, and warming himself in the light of the fire.

• Mark 14:55

  Now the chief priests and the whole council sought witnesses against Jesus to put him to death, and found none.

• Mark 14:56

  For many gave false testimony against him, and their testimony didn’t agree with each other.

• Mark 14:57

  Some stood up, and gave false testimony against him, saying,

• Mark 14:58

  “We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.’”

• Mark 14:59

  Even so, their testimony did not agree.

• Mark 14:60

  The high priest stood up in the middle, and asked Jesus, “Have you no answer? What is it which these testify against you?”

• Mark 14:61

  But he stayed quiet, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, “Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?”

• Mark 14:62

  Jesus said, “I am. You will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of the sky.”

• Mark 14:63

  The high priest tore his clothes, and said, “What further need have we of witnesses?

• Mark 14:64

  You have heard the blasphemy! What do you think?” They all condemned him to be worthy of death.

• Mark 14:65

  Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with fists, and to tell him, “Prophesy!” The officers struck him with the palms of their hands.

• Luke 3:14

  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.”

• Luke 23:2

  They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”

• John 18:30

  They answered him, “If this man weren’t an evildoer, we wouldn’t have delivered him up to you.”

• Acts 6:11

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

• Acts 6:13

  and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

• Acts 16:20

  When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, “These men, being Jews, are agitating our city,

• Acts 16:21

  and advocate customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans.”

• Acts 17:7

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

• Acts 21:28

  crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!”

• Acts 24:5

  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.

• Acts 24:6

  He even tried to profane the temple, and we arrested him.

• Acts 24:13

  Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me.

• Acts 25:2

  Then the high priest and the principal men of the Jews informed him against Paul, and they begged him,

• Acts 25:7

  When he had come, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing against him many and grievous charges which they could not prove,

• Romans 3:8

  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.

• 2 Timothy 3:3

  without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,

• 1 Peter 4:14

  If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.