48 Bible Verses about Backbiting

You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.

The north wind brings rain, and a backbiting tongue an angry look.

Furthermore, because they did not think it worthwhile to keep knowing God fully, God delivered them to degraded minds to perform acts that should not be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and viciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, haughty, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to their parents,

I will destroy the one who secretly slanders a friend. I will not allow the proud and haughty to prevail.

LORD, who may stay in your tent? Who may dwell on your holy mountain? The one who lives with integrity, who does righteous deeds, and who speaks truth to himself. The one who does not slander with his tongue, who does no evil to his neighbor, and who does not destroy his friend's reputation.

Therefore, rid yourselves of every kind of evil and deception, hypocrisy, jealousy, and every kind of slander.

I am afraid that I may come and somehow find you not as I want to find you, and that you may find me not as you want to find me. Perhaps there will be quarreling, jealousy, anger, selfishness, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorderly conduct.

slanderers, God-haters, haughty, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to their parents,

Do not criticize each other, brothers. Whoever makes it his habit to criticize his brother or to judge his brother is judging the Law and condemning the Law. But if you condemn the Law, you are not a practicer of the Law but its judge.

They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and viciousness. They are gossips,

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, quarreling, and slander be put away from you, along with all hatred.

"You are not to go around slandering your people. "You are not to stand idle when your neighbor's life is at stake. I am the LORD.

At the same time, they also learn how to be lazy while going from house to house. Not only this, but they even become gossips and keep busy by interfering in other people's lives, saying things they should not say.

Let no filthy talk be heard from your mouths, but only what is good for building up people and meeting the need of the moment. This way you will administer grace to those who hear you.

Furthermore, because they did not think it worthwhile to keep knowing God fully, God delivered them to degraded minds to perform acts that should not be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and viciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, haughty, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to their parents, read more.
foolish, faithless, heartless, and ruthless. Although they know God's just requirement that those who practice such things deserve to die they not only do these things but even applaud others who practice them.

Anyone who overlooks an offense promotes love, but someone who gossips separates close friends.

A deceitful man stirs dissension, and anyone who gossips separates friends.

The one who does not slander with his tongue, who does no evil to his neighbor, and who does not destroy his friend's reputation.

You belong to your father the Devil, and you want to carry out the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and has never stood for truth, since there is no truth in him. Whenever he tells a lie, he speaks in character, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

Without wood, the fire goes out. Without a gossip, contention stops.

By what he says, the godless person can destroy his neighbor, but through knowledge the righteous escape.

he is a conceited person and does not understand anything. He has an unhealthy craving for arguments and debates. This produces jealousy, rivalry, slander, evil suspicions,

"You are not to give false testimony against your neighbor.

Whoever conceals hatred is a deceitful liar, and whoever spreads slander is a fool.

Whoever spreads gossip betrays confidences; so don't get involved with someone who talks too much.

But people who are cowardly, unfaithful, detestable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars will find themselves in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death."

You must understand this, my dear brothers. Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry.

Then keep your tongue from doing evil and your lips from spreading lies.

But now you must also get rid of anger, wrath, malice, slander, obscene speech, and all such sins.

But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you are not destroyed by each other.

"You are not to spread a false report, nor are you to join forces with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

For all of us make many mistakes. If someone does not make any mistakes when he speaks, he is perfect and able to control his whole body.

Continue to live such upright lives among the gentiles that, when they slander you as practicers of evil, they may see your good actions and glorify God when he visits them.

Whoever spreads gossip betrays secrets, but the trustworthy person keeps a confidence.

Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say, "Now the salvation, the power, the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Messiah have come. For the one who accuses our brothers, who accuses them day and night in the presence of our God, has been thrown out.

Obscene, flippant, or vulgar talk is totally inappropriate. Instead, let there be thanksgiving.

Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to everyone generously without a rebuke, and it will be given to him.

Their wives must also be serious. They must not be gossips, but instead be stable and trustworthy in everything.

The power of the tongue is life and death those who love to talk will eat what it produces.

unfeeling, uncooperative, slanderous, degenerate, brutal, hateful of what is good,

When slandered, we answer with kind words. Even now we have become the filth of the world, the scum of the universe.

But do this gently and respectfully, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak evil of your good conduct in the Messiah will be ashamed of slandering you.

A good person produces good from the good treasure of his heart, and an evil person produces evil from an evil treasure, because the mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart."

a false witness snorting lies, and someone sowing quarrels between brothers.

All of them are very rebellious, going around as slanderers. They're bronze and iron, and all of them are corrupt.

"Beware of your neighbors, and don't trust any of your relatives. For all of your relatives act deceitfully, and every friend goes around as a slanderer.

Anyone who guards his words protects his life; anyone who talks too much is ruined.

Whoever watches his mouth and tongue keeps himself from trouble.