Backbiting: General Scriptures Concerning

A Psalm of David. O LORD, who may abide in Your tent? Who may dwell on Your holy mountain? …

As the north wind brings forth rain, so a backbiting tongue brings angry looks.

Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

…slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.

For I am afraid that when I come, I may not find you as I wish, and you may not find me as you wish. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, rage, rivalry, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.