What does the Bible say about slander?

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• Psalms 101:5

  I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won't tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.

• Matthew 12:36

  I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

• Proverbs 10:18

  He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.

• 1 Peter 3:16

  having a good conscience; that, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good manner of life in Christ.

• James 4:11

  Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

• Exodus 20:16

  "You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

• 1 Peter 2:1

  Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

• Titus 3:2

  to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

• 2 Timothy 3:1-5

  [1] But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. [2] For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, [3] without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good, [4] traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; [5] holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof. Turn away from these, also.

• Proverbs 16:28

  A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

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