Slander
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Comes from the evil heart
Luke 6:45
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.
Luke 6:45 -
Often arises from hatred
Ps 109:3
3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
Psalms 109:3 -
Idleness leads to
1 Tim 5:13
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.
1 Timothy 5:13 -
Evil people addicted to
Ps 50:20
20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
Psalms 50:20 -
Hypocrites habitually
Prov 11:9
9 An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.
Proverbs 11:9 -
A characteristic of the Devil
Rev 12:10
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.
Revelation 12:10 -
Wicked people love
Ps 52:4
4 Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
Psalms 52:4 -
Those who indulge in, are fools
Prov 10:18
18 He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
Proverbs 10:18 -
Women warned against
Titus 2:3
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 2:3 -
Wives of God’s servants should avoid
1 Tim 3:11
11 Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
1 Timothy 3:11 -
Christ was exposed to
Ps 35:11; Matt 26:60
11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
Psalms 35:1160 But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses,
Matthew 26:60 -
Rulers exposed to
Jude 1:8
8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
Jude 1:8 -
Servants of God exposed to
Rom 3:8; 2 Cor 6:8
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.
Romans 3:88 By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
2 Corinthians 6:8 -
The nearest relations exposed to
Ps 50:20
20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
Psalms 50:20 -
Saints exposed to
Ps 38:12; 109:2; 1 Pet 4:4
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 38:122 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.
Psalms 109:24 Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
1 Peter 4:4 -
Saints should keep their tongues from
Ps 34:13; 1 Pet 3:10
13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Psalms 34:1310 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 3:10 -
Saints should lay aside
Eph 4:31
31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Ephesians 4:31 - Should be warned against Titus 3:1, 2
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Should give no occasion for
1 Pet 2:12; 3:16
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 2:1216 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 3:16 -
Should return good for
1 Cor 4:13
13 Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.
1 Corinthians 4:13 -
Blessed in enduring
Matt 5:11
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 5:11 -
Characterized as avoiding
Ps 15:1, 3
1 LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?
Psalms 15:13 He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
Psalms 15:3 -
Should not be listened to
1 Sam 24:9
9 And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men's words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?
1 Samuel 24:9 -
Causes anger
Prov 25:23
23 The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
Proverbs 25:23 - Effects of
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Separating friends
Prov 16:28; 17:9
28 A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
Proverbs 16:289 He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
Proverbs 17:9 -
Deadly wounds
Prov 18:8; 26:22
8 The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
Proverbs 18:822 The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
Proverbs 26:22 -
Strife
Prov 26:20
20 Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
Proverbs 26:20 -
Discord among brethren
Prov 6:19
19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
Proverbs 6:19 -
Murder
Ps 31:13; Ezek 22:9
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 31:139 In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.
Ezekiel 22:9 -
The tongue of, is a scourge
Job 5:21
21 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
Job 5:21 -
Is venomous
Ps 140:3; Eccl 10:11
3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
Psalms 140:311 Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.
Ecclesiastes 10:11 -
Is destructive
Prov 11:9
9 An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.
Proverbs 11:9 -
End of, is mischievous madness
Eccl 10:13
13 The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.
Ecclesiastes 10:13 -
People shall give account for
Matt 12:36
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 12:36 -
Punishment for
Deut 19:16–21
16 If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong; 17 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; 18 And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother; 19 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. 20 And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you. 21 And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Deuteronomy 19:16 -
Unclassified scriptures relating to
Ex 23:1; Deut 22:13–19; Job 5:21; Ps 41:6–9; 50:20; 101:5; Prov 10:18; 25:23; Jer 6:28; 9:4; Rom 1:29, 30; 1 Cor 4:13; 6:10; 2 Cor 12:20; Jas 4:11; 1 Pet 2:1; 2 Pet 2:10
1 Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
Exodus 23:113 If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, 14 And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid: 15 Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate: 16 And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her; 17 And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. 18 And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him; 19 And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
Deuteronomy 22:1321 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
Job 5:216 And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it. 7 All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt. 8 An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more. 9 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
Psalms 41:620 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
Psalms 50:205 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
Psalms 101:518 He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
Proverbs 10:1823 The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
Proverbs 25:2328 They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.
Jeremiah 6:284 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.
Jeremiah 9:429 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Romans 1:2930 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Romans 1:3013 Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.
1 Corinthians 4:1310 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Corinthians 6:1020 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 12:2011 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
James 4:111 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
1 Peter 2:110 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
2 Peter 2:10 - Instances of
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Joseph by Potiphar’s wife
Gen 39:14–18
14 That she called unto the men of her house, and spake unto them, saying, See, he hath brought in an Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice: 15 And it came to pass, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled, and got him out. 16 And she laid up his garment by her, until his lord came home. 17 And she spake unto him according to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant, which thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to mock me: 18 And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled out.
Genesis 39:14 -
The land of Canaan misrepresented by the spies
Num 14:36
36 And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,
Numbers 14:36 -
Of Mephiboseth, by Ziba
2 Sam 16:3; 19:24–30
3 And the king said, And where is thy master's son? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he abideth at Jerusalem: for he said, To day shall the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father.
2 Samuel 16:324 And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came again in peace. 25 And it came to pass, when he was come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said unto him, Wherefore wentest not thou with me, Mephibosheth? 26 And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go to the king; because thy servant is lame. 27 And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in thine eyes. 28 For all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king? 29 And the king said unto him, Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba divide the land. 30 And Mephibosheth said unto the king, Yea, let him take all, forasmuch as my lord the king is come again in peace unto his own house.
2 Samuel 19:24 -
Of David, by his enemies
Ps 31:13; 35:21; 41:5; 64:3; 140:3
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 31:1321 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
Psalms 35:215 Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?
Psalms 41:53 Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
Psalms 64:33 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
Psalms 140:3 -
Of Naboth, by Jezebel
1 Kgs 21:9–14
9 And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people: 10 And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die. 11 And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them. 12 They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people. 13 And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died. 14 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead.
1 Kings 21:9 -
Of Jeremiah, by the Jews
Jer 18:18
18 Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
Jeremiah 18:18 -
Of Jesus, by the Jews falsely charging that he was a winebibber (wino)
Matt 11:19
19 The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.
Matthew 11:19 -
That he blasphemed
Mark 14:64; John 5:18
64 Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye? And they all condemned him to be guilty of death.
Mark 14:6418 Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
John 5:18 -
That he had a demon
John 8:48, 52; 10:20
48 Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?
John 8:4852 Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death.
John 8:5220 And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
John 10:20 -
That he was seditious
Luke 22:65; 23:5
65 And many other things blasphemously spake they against him.
Luke 22:655 And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to this place.
Luke 23:5 -
That he was a king
Luke 23:2; John 18:37; 19:1–5
2 And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King.
Luke 23:237 Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.
John 18:371 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. 2 And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe, 3 And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands. 4 Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him. 5 Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man!
John 19:1 - Of Paul
- See Paul
- See Accusation, false
- See False Witness
- See Falsehood
- See Speaking evil
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
