Leviticus 19:16

New International Version

“ ‘Do not go about spreading slander among your people. “ ‘Do not do anything that endangers your neighbor’s life. I am the Lord.

Cross References

Job 17:5

If anyone denounces their friends for reward, the eyes of their children will fail.

Psalm 101:5

Whoever slanders their neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; whoever has haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not tolerate.

Psalm 15:3

whose tongue utters no slander, who does no wrong to a neighbor, and casts no slur on others;

Psalm 50:20

You sit and testify against your brother and slander your own mother’s son.

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.

Exodus 23:7

Have nothing to do with a false charge and do not put an innocent or honest person to death, for I will not acquit the guilty.

Proverbs 10:18

Whoever conceals hatred with lying lips and spreads slander is a fool.

Proverbs 11:13

A gossip betrays a confidence, but a trustworthy person keeps a secret.

Proverbs 20:19

A gossip betrays a confidence; so avoid anyone who talks too much.

Jeremiah 6:28

They are all hardened rebels, going about to slander. They are bronze and iron; they all act corruptly.

Jeremiah 9:4

“Beware of your friends; do not trust anyone in your clan. For every one of them is a deceiver, and every friend a slanderer.

Ezekiel 22:9

In you are slanderers who are bent on shedding blood; in you are those who eat at the mountain shrines and commit lewd acts.

Matthew 27:4

“I have sinned,” he said, “for I have betrayed innocent blood.” “What is that to us?” they replied. “That’s your responsibility.”

Deuteronomy 27:25

“Cursed is anyone who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person.” Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

1 Timothy 3:11

In the same way, the women are to be worthy of respect, not malicious talkers but temperate and trustworthy in everything.

2 Timothy 3:3

without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,

Titus 2:3

Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good.

1 Peter 2:1

Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind.

1 Samuel 24:10

This day you have seen with your own eyes how the Lord delivered you into my hands in the cave. Some urged me to kill you, but I spared you; I said, ‘I will not lay my hand on my lord, because he is the Lord’s anointed.’