Slander
False and damaging speech about another person, consistently condemned in Scripture. Leviticus 19:16 commands, 'Do not go about spreading slander among your people.' Psalm 101:5 declares, 'Whoever slanders their neighbor in secret, I will put to silence.' Proverbs 10:18 warns, 'Whoever spreads slander is a fool.' Ephesians 4:31 commands believers to rid themselves of 'slander, along with every form of malice.' First Peter 2:1 instructs, 'Rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind.' James 4:11 warns, 'Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another.' The devil himself is the slanderer (diabolos), and slander reflects his character rather than God's.
Verses about Slander
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Bilangan 14:36
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 th…
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2 Samuel 19:27
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.
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Mazmur 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.
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Amsal 10:18
He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
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Yeremia 6:28
They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.
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Yeremia 9:4
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…
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Roma 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.
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1 Timotius 3:11
Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.