Bible Verses About False Accusations
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for false accusations, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 5,587 votes, led by 1 Peter 3:16. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about False Accusations
1 Peter 3:16477 votes
Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.
Exodus 20:16419 votes
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Exodus 23:1335 votes
Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
Isaiah 54:17319 votes
No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.
Deuteronomy 19:18-19279 votes
And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;
Matthew 5:11269 votes
Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Exodus 14:14266 votes
The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
1 Peter 2:1-12224 votes
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
Psalms 23:1-6150 votes
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
Revelation 12:10134 votes
And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
Psalms 15:3123 votes
He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
Genesis 50:20119 votes
But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
James 1:1-27117 votes
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
Leviticus 19:16111 votes
Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the Lord.
Psalms 55:2387 votes
But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
1 Peter 2:1-2583 votes
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
Proverbs 3:3074 votes
Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.
Matthew 24:3573 votes
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Proverbs 11:968 votes
An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.
Deuteronomy 19:16-1962 votes
If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;
Proverbs 22:657 votes
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Luke 19:857 votes
And Zaccheus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.
Titus 2:357 votes
The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
2 Peter 3:957 votes
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Exodus 23:753 votes
Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
What does the Bible say about false accusations?
Readers most often cite 1 Peter 3:16 on the subject of false accusations. Across 5,587 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Exodus 20:16, Exodus 23:1, Isaiah 54:17. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.