Backbiting
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General scriptures concerning
Ps 15:1–3; Prov 25:23; Rom 1:28, 30; 2 Cor 12:20
1 LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill? 2 He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart. 3 He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
Psalms 15:123 The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
Proverbs 25:2328 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Romans 1:2830 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Romans 1:3020 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:
2 Corinthians 12:20 - See Accusation, false
- See Slander
- See Speaking, evil
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
