Slander is the act of speaking falsely, often with evil intention, about another person. The idea is so widespread that it is represented in the Bible by several different expressions. The following are the occasions when the NIV translates them by the different forms of the English word 'slander.'
(All citations are from the NIV)
Lev 19:16 — "'Do not go about spreading slander among your people. "'Do not do anything that endangers your neighbour's life. I am the Lord.
Deut 22:14 — 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,"
Deut 22:17 — Now he has slandered her and said,'I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.' But here is the proof of my daughter's virginity." Then her parents shall display the cloth before the elders of the town,
2 Sam 19:27 — And he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. My lord the king is like an angel of God; so do whatever pleases you.
Psm 15:3 — and has no slander on his tongue, who does his neighbour no wrong and casts no slur on his fellow-man,
Psm 31:13 — For I hear the slander of many; there is terror on every side; they conspire against me and plot to take my life.
Psm 35:15 — But when I stumbled, they gathered in glee; attackers gathered against me when I was unaware. They slandered me without ceasing.
Psm 38:20 — Those who repay my good with evil slander me when I pursue what is good.
Psm 41:6 — Whenever one comes to see me, he speaks falsely, while his heart gathers slander; then he goes out and spreads it abroad.
Psm 50:20 — You speak continually against your brother and slander your own mother's son.
Psm 54:5 — Let evil recoil on those who slander me; in your faithfulness destroy them.
Psm 56:2 — My slanderers pursue me all day long; many are attacking me in their pride.
Psm 59:10 — my loving God. God will go before me and will let me gloat over those who slander me.
Psm 101:5 — Whoever slanders his neighbour in secret, him will I put to silence; whoever has haughty eyes and a proud heart, him will I not endure.
Psm 119:23 — Though rulers sit together and slander me, your servant will meditate on your decrees.
Psm 140:11 — Let slanderers not be established in the land; may disaster hunt down men of violence.
Prov 10:18 — He who conceals his hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool.
Prov 30:10 — "Do not slander a servant to his master, or he will curse you, and you will pay for it.
Jer 6:28 — They are all hardened rebels, going about to slander. They are bronze and iron; they all act corruptly.
Jer 9:4 — "Beware of your friends; do not trust your brothers. For every brother is a deceiver, and every friend a slanderer.
Eze 22:9 — In you are slanderous men bent on shedding blood; in you are those who eat at the mountain shrines and commit lewd acts.
Eze 36:3 — Therefore prophesy and say,'This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because they ravaged and hounded you from every side so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations and the object of people's malicious talk and slander,
Matt 15:19 — For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
Mk 7:22 — greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.
Rom 1:30 — slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;
Rom 3:8 — Why not say—as we are being slanderously reported as saying and as some claim that we say—"Let us do evil that good may result"? Their condemnation is deserved.
1 Cor 4:13 — when we are slandered, we answer kindly. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world.
1 Cor 5:11 — But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.
1 Cor 6:10 — nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
2 Cor 12:20 — For I am afraid that when I come I may not find you as I want you to be, and you may not find me as you want me to be. I fear that there may be quarrelling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder.
Eph 4:31 — Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice.
Col 3:8 — But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander and filthy language from your lips.
1 Tim 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.
1 Tim 6:1 — All who are under the yoke of slavery should consider their masters worthy of full respect, so that God's name and our teaching may not be slandered.
2 Tim 3:3 — without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,
Tit 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.
Tit 3:2 — to slander no-one, to be peaceable and considerate, and to show true humility towards all men.
James 2:7 — Are they not the ones who are slandering the noble name of him to whom you belong?
Jam 4:11 — Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it.
1 Pet 2:1 — Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind.
1 Pet 3:16 — keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behaviour in Christ may be ashamed of their slander.
2 Pet 2:10 — This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings;
2 Pet 2:11 — yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
Jude 1:8 — In the very same way, these dreamers pollute their own bodies, reject authority and slander celestial beings.
Jude 1:9 — But even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring a slanderous accusation against him, but said, "The Lord rebuke you!"
Rev 2:9 — I know your afflictions and your poverty—yet you are rich! I know the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
Rev 13:6 — He opened his mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling-place and those who live in heaven.
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