Deuteronomy 19:16-21
If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him
that which is wrong; Then both the men, between whom the
controversy is, shall stand before the Lord, before the priests
and the judges, which shall be in those days; And the judges shall
make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a
false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;
Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his
brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you. And those
which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no
more any such evil among you. And thine eye shall not pity; but
life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for
hand, foot for foot.
Psalms 15:1-3
*A Psalm of David.* Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who
shall dwell in thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh
righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart. He that
backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor
taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
Psalms 31:13
For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side:
while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take
away my life.
Psalms 34:13
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Psalms 35:11
False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I
knew not.
Psalms 38:12
They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that
seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the
day long.
Psalms 50:20
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest
thine own mother's son.
Psalms 52:4
Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
Psalms 109:2-3
For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are
opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought
against me without a cause.
Psalms 140:3
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison
is under their lips. Selah.
Proverbs 6:19
A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord
among brethren.
Proverbs 10:18
He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a
slander, is a fool.
Proverbs 11:9
An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through
knowledge shall the just be delivered.
Proverbs 16:28
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief
friends.
Proverbs 17:9
He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth
a matter separateth very friends.
Proverbs 18:8
The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the
innermost parts of the belly.
Proverbs 25:23
The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a
backbiting tongue.
Proverbs 26:20
Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no
talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
Proverbs 26:22
The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the
innermost parts of the belly.
Ecclesiastes 10:11
Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is
no better.
Ecclesiastes 10:13
The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the
end of his talk is mischievous madness.
Matthew 5:11
Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you,
and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Matthew 12:36
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they
shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
Matthew 26:60
But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found
they none. At the last came two false witnesses,
Luke 6:45
A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that
which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart
bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart
his mouth speaketh.
Romans 3:8
And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some
affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose
damnation is just.
1 Corinthians 4:13
Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world,
and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.
2 Corinthians 12:20
For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would,
and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest
there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings,
whisperings, swellings, tumults:
Ephesians 4:31
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil
speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
1 Timothy 3:11
Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober,
faithful in all things.
1 Timothy 5:13
And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to
house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking
things which they ought not.
Titus 2:3
The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh
holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of
good things;
Titus 3:1-2
Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey
magistrates, to be ready to every good work, To speak evil of no
man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all
men.
1 Peter 2:12
Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas
they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works,
which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
1 Peter 3:10
For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his
tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
1 Peter 3:16
Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as
of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good
conversation in Christ.
1 Peter 4:4
Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the
same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
Jude 1:8
Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise
dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
Revelation 12:10
And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation,
and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his
Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused
them before our God day and night.
