Deuteronomy 22:14

New International Version

and slanders her and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity,”

Cross References

Exodus 20:16

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

Exodus 23:1

“Do not spread false reports. Do not help a guilty person by being a malicious witness.

Proverbs 18:21

The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

Proverbs 18:8

The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to the inmost parts.

Deuteronomy 22:13

If a man takes a wife and, after sleeping with her, dislikes her

Deuteronomy 22:15

then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring to the town elders at the gate proof that she was a virgin.

Deuteronomy 22:19

They shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, because this man has given an Israelite virgin a bad name. She shall continue to be his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.

1 Timothy 5:14

So I counsel younger widows to marry, to have children, to manage their homes and to give the enemy no opportunity for slander.