What Does the Bible Say About Character Assassination?

1 Peter 3:16 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 19 helpful votes

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

James 5:16 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

Galatians 6:1 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.

2 Corinthians 11:20 ESV / 15 helpful votes

For you bear it if someone makes slaves of you, or devours you, or takes advantage of you, or puts on airs, or strikes you in the face.

Psalm 11:1-7 ESV / 15 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. Of David. In the Lord I take refuge; how can you say to my soul, “Flee like a bird to your mountain, for behold, the wicked bend the bow; they have fitted their arrow to the string to shoot in the dark at the upright in heart; if the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?” The Lord is in his holy temple; the Lord's throne is in heaven; his eyes see, his eyelids test the children of man. The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence. ...

Isaiah 53:1-12 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. ...

Matthew 23:1-3 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat, so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice.

Matthew 23:23-24 ESV / 9 helpful votes

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel!

Matthew 23:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.

3 John 1:9-10 ESV / 8 helpful votes

I have written something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority. So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, talking wicked nonsense against us. And not content with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers, and also stops those who want to and puts them out of the church.

Matthew 5:11 ESV / 8 helpful votes

“Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.

Luke 22:25 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And he said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them, and those in authority over them are called benefactors.

Mark 16:1-20 ESV / 7 helpful votes

When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. And they were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?” And looking up, they saw that the stone had been rolled back—it was very large. And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were alarmed. ...

Matthew 23:15 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.

Ezekiel 34:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes

The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them.

Ezekiel 22:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes

There are men in you who slander to shed blood, and people in you who eat on the mountains; they commit lewdness in your midst.

Matthew 23:34 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town,

Matthew 16:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Jesus said to them, “Watch and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

Genesis 2:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

Colossians 1:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

John 19:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin.”

2 Chronicles 6:30 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Then hear from heaven your dwelling place and forgive and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways, for you, you only, know the hearts of the children of mankind,

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Philippians 2:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,

2 Corinthians 11:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.

Acts 2:42 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.

John 10:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.

Matthew 23:6-7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And they love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces and being called rabbi by others.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Acts 15:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the test by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?

Luke 22:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But not so with you. Rather, let the greatest among you become as the youngest, and the leader as one who serves.

Matthew 23:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

So do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice.

Matthew 23:1-2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat,

Matthew 16:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Then they understood that he did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Micah 5:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.

Ezekiel 34:1-6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy, and say to them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord God: Ah, shepherds of Israel who have been feeding yourselves! Should not shepherds feed the sheep? You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fat ones, but you do not feed the sheep. The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them. So they were scattered, because there was no shepherd, and they became food for all the wild beasts. My sheep were scattered; ...

39 Bible Verses about Character Assassination

1 Peter 3:16 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 5:16 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 6:1 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 11:20 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 11:1-7 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 53:1-12 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 23:1-3 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 23:23-24 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 23:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

3 John 1:9-10 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 5:11 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 22:25 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 16:1-20 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 23:15 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 34:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 22:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 23:34 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 16:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 2:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 1:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 6:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 19:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Chronicles 6:30 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 2:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 11:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 2:42 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 10:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 23:6-7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 15:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 22:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 23:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 23:1-2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 16:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Micah 5:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 34:1-6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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