What are some Bible verses about backstabbing?

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Matthew 5:44  

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,  
  

Proverbs 16:28  

A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.  
  

1 Peter 2:1\-25  

So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.  
  

Proverbs 23:6\-8  

Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy; do not desire his delicacies, for he is like one who is inwardly calculating. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you. You will vomit up the morsels that you have eaten, and waste your pleasant words.  
  

Psalm 110:1  

A Psalm of David. The Lord says to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.”  
  

Ephesians 4:26  

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,  
  

John 8:32  

And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.  
  

2 Corinthians 4:16  

So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.  
  

Psalm 119:105  

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.  
  

2 Timothy 3:16  

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

1 Thessalonians 5:21  

But test everything; hold fast what is good.  
  

1 Corinthians 6:9\-11  

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.  
  

1 John 4:8  

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.  
  

James 3:14\-16  

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.  
  

Psalm 104:33\-34  

I will sing to the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have being. May my meditation be pleasing to him, for I rejoice in the Lord.  
  

2 Corinthians 12:20  

For I fear that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish—that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.  
  

Romans 1:30  

Slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,  
  

John 8:7  

And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.”  
  

Proverbs 20:20  

If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.  
  

Romans 1:18  

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.  
  

*Unless otherwise noted, all Bible verses are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® Copyright© 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.*  
  

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