The King James Version Bible

Bible Verses About Backbiting

  • A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
  • Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair ...
  • 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. There is one lawgiver, who ...
  • The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
  • 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 neighbour, nor taketh ...
  • For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
  • If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
  • Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that ...
  • A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.
  • 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:
  • He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
  • Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
  • Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.
  • But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
  • But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
  • Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
  • The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
  • I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
  • But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
  • Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
  • Judge not, that ye be not judged.
  • Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
  • And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.