Slander: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To

“You shall not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness.

Suppose a man marries a woman, has relations with her, and comes to hate her, …

You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, and will not fear havoc when it comes.

My visitor speaks falsehood; he gathers slander in his heart; he goes out and spreads it abroad. …

You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.

Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.

The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool.

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

All are hardened rebels, walking around as slanderers. They are bronze and iron; all of them are corrupt.

“Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander.

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

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

…when we are slandered, we answer gently. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world.

…nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.

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.

Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it.

Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.

Such punishment is specially reserved for those who indulge the corrupt desires of the flesh and despise authority. Bold and self-willed, they are unafraid to slander glorious beings.