SLANDER

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• 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.”

• Exodus 23:1

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

• Numbers 14:36

  The men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land,

• Deuteronomy 19:16

  If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,

• Deuteronomy 19:17

  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;

• Deuteronomy 19:18

  and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother;

• Deuteronomy 19:19

  then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

• Deuteronomy 19:20

  Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and will never again commit any such evil among you.

• Deuteronomy 19:21

  Your eyes shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

• Deuteronomy 22:13

  If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, hates her,

• Deuteronomy 22:14

  accuses her of shameful things, and 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”;

• Deuteronomy 22:15

  then the young lady’s father and mother shall take and bring the tokens of the young lady’s virginity to the elders of the city in the gate.

• Deuteronomy 22:16

  The young lady’s father shall tell the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man as his wife, and he hates her.

• Deuteronomy 22:17

  Behold, he has accused her of shameful things, saying, ‘I didn’t find in your daughter the tokens of virginity;’ and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity.” They shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.

• Deuteronomy 22:18

  The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him.

• Deuteronomy 22:19

  They shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has given a bad name to a virgin of Israel. She shall be his wife. He may not put her away all his days.

• 1 Samuel 24:9

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

• 2 Samuel 16:3

  The king said, “Where is your master’s son?” Ziba said to the king, “Behold, he is staying in Jerusalem; for he said, ‘Today the house of Israel will restore me the kingdom of my father.’”

• 2 Samuel 19:24

  Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and he had neither groomed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace.

• 2 Samuel 19:25

  When he had come to Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, “Why didn’t you go with me, Mephibosheth?”

• 2 Samuel 19:26

  He answered, “My lord, O king, my servant deceived me. For your servant said, I will saddle me a donkey, that I may ride on it, and go with the king; because your servant is lame.

• 2 Samuel 19:27

  He has slandered your servant to my lord the king, but my lord the king is as an angel of God. Do therefore what is good in your eyes.

• 2 Samuel 19:28

  For all my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king; yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more to the king?”

• 2 Samuel 19:29

  The king said to him, “Why do you speak any more of your matters? I say, you and Ziba divide the land.”

• 2 Samuel 19:30

  Mephibosheth said to the king, “Yes, let him take all, because my lord the king has come in peace to his own house.”

• 1 Kings 21:9

  She wrote in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

• 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 21:11

  The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had instructed them in the letters which she had written and sent to them.

• 1 Kings 21:12

  They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

• 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.

• 1 Kings 21:14

  Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned, and is dead.”

• Job 5:21

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

• Psalms 15:1

  A Psalm by David. Yahweh, who shall dwell in your sanctuary? Who shall live on your holy hill?

• Psalms 15:3

  He who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;

• Psalms 31:13

  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.

• Psalms 34:13

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

• Psalms 35:11

  Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about.

• Psalms 35:21

  Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, “Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!”

• Psalms 38:12

  They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

• 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.

• Psalms 50:20

  You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.

• Psalms 52:4

  You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.

• Psalms 64:3

  who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,

• Psalms 101:5

  I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.

• Psalms 109:2

  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.

• Psalms 109:3

  They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

• Psalms 140:3

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

• Proverbs 6:19

  a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

• Proverbs 10:18

  He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.

• Proverbs 11:9

  With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor, but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge.

• Proverbs 16:28

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

• Proverbs 17:9

  He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

• Proverbs 18:8

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

• Proverbs 25:23

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

• Proverbs 26:20

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

• Proverbs 26:22

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

• Ecclesiastes 10:11

  If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer’s tongue.

• Ecclesiastes 10:13

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

• Jeremiah 6:28

  They are all grievous rebels, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.

• Jeremiah 9:4

  “Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.

• Jeremiah 18:18

  Then they said, “Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.”

• Ezekiel 22:9

  Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.

• Matthew 1:8

  Asa became the father of Jehoshaphat. Jehoshaphat became the father of Joram. Joram became the father of Uzziah.

• 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 11:19

  The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”

• Matthew 12:36

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

• 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,

• Mark 14:64

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

• Luke 6:45

  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.

• Luke 22:65

  They spoke many other things against him, insulting him.

• 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.”

• Luke 23:5

  But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.”

• John 5:18

  For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

• John 8:48

  Then the Jews answered him, “Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?”

• John 8:52

  Then the Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets; and you say, ‘If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.’

• John 10:20

  Many of them said, “He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?”

• John 18:37

  Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”

• John 19:1

  So Pilate then took Jesus, and flogged him.

• John 19:2

  The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown, and put it on his head, and dressed him in a purple garment.

• John 19:3

  They kept saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and they kept slapping him.

• John 19:4

  Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, “Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him.”

• John 19:5

  Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, “Behold, the man!”

• Romans 1:29

  being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

• Romans 1:30

  backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

• 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.

• 1 Corinthians 4:13

  Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.

• 1 Corinthians 6:10

  nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.

• 2 Corinthians 6:8

  by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;

• 2 Corinthians 12:20

  For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;

• Ephesians 4:31

  Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.

• 1 Timothy 3:11

  Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

• 1 Timothy 5:13

  Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

• Titus 2:3

  and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

• Titus 3:1

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

• Titus 3:2

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

• James 4:11

  Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

• 1 Peter 2:1

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

• 1 Peter 2:12

  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 3:10

  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 3:16

  having a good conscience; that, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

• 1 Peter 4:4

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

• 2 Peter 2:10

  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;

• Revelation 12:10

  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 night.