Bible Verses About Backbiting

Here we have collected several Bible verses about Backbiting from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version (KJV).

Deuteronomy 19:16-21

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"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…

1 Peter 3:10

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"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 KJV

Matthew 5:11

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"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 KJV

Psalms 31:13

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"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 31:13 KJV

Titus 2:3

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"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 KJV

Romans 3:8

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"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 3:8 KJV

Psalms 38:12

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"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 38:12 KJV

1 Peter 3:16

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"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 KJV

1 Timothy 5:13

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"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 KJV

1 Peter 2:12

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"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 2:12 KJV

Titus 3:1-2

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"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" -…

Psalms 109:2-3

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"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…

2 Corinthians 12:20

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"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:"…

Luke 6:45

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"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…

Revelation 12:10

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"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…

Psalms 15:1-3

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"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…

Matthew 26:60

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"But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses," - Matthew 26:60 KJV

1 Corinthians 4:13

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"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 KJV

Matthew 12:36

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"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 KJV

Ephesians 4:31

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"Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:" - Ephesians 4:31 KJV

Proverbs 16:28

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"A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends" - Proverbs 16:28 KJV

Psalms 35:11

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"False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not" - Psalms 35:11 KJV

Ecclesiastes 10:11

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"Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better" - Ecclesiastes 10:11 KJV

Proverbs 6:19

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"A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren" - Proverbs 6:19 KJV

Proverbs 10:18

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"He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool" - Proverbs 10:18 KJV

1 Timothy 3:11

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"Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things" - 1 Timothy 3:11 KJV

Proverbs 25:23

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"The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue" - Proverbs 25:23 KJV

Psalms 50:20

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"Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son" - Psalms 50:20 KJV

Psalms 140:3

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"They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah" - Psalms 140:3 KJV

Proverbs 18:8

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"The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly" - Proverbs 18:8 KJV

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