35 Bible Verses About Backstabbing

Psalm 41:9

“Even my close friend, someone I trusted, one who shared my bread, has turned against me.”

Proverbs 16:28

“A perverse person stirs up conflict, and a gossip separates close friends.”

Proverbs 18:8

“The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to the inmost parts.”

Proverbs 25:9-10

“Argue your case with your neighbor, and do not reveal the secret of another, or else someone who hears you will put you to shame, and your ill repute will have no end.”

Proverbs 26:20

“Without wood a fire goes out; without a gossip a quarrel dies down.”

Matthew 26:14-16

“Then one of the Twelve—the one called Judas Iscariot—went to the chief priests and asked, ‘What are you willing to give me if I deliver him over to you?’ So they counted out for him thirty pieces of silver. From then on Judas watched for an opportunity to hand him over.”

Matthew 26:48-50

“Now the betrayer had arranged a signal with them: ‘The one I kiss is the man; arrest him.’ Going at once to Jesus, Judas said, ‘Greetings, Rabbi!’ and kissed him. Jesus replied, ‘Do what you came for, friend.'”

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Luke 22:47-48

“While he was still speaking, a crowd came up, and the man who was called Judas, one of the Twelve, was leading them. He approached Jesus to kiss him, but Jesus asked him, ‘Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?'”

John 13:18

“I am not referring to all of you; I know those I have chosen. But this is to fulfill this passage of Scripture: ‘He who shared my bread has turned against me.'”

John 18:2-3

“Now Judas, who betrayed him, knew the place, because Jesus had often met there with his disciples. So Judas came to the garden, guiding a detachment of soldiers and some officials from the chief priests and the Pharisees. They were carrying torches, lanterns, and weapons.”

2 Samuel 15:12

“While Absalom was offering sacrifices, he also sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, to come from Giloh, his hometown. And so the conspiracy gained strength, and Absalom’s following kept on increasing.”

2 Samuel 15:31

“Now someone told David, ‘Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.’ So David prayed, ‘Lord, turn Ahithophel’s counsel into foolishness.'”

Psalm 55:12-14

“If an enemy were insulting me, I could endure it; if a foe were rising against me, I could hide. But it is you, a man like myself, my companion, my close friend, with whom I once enjoyed sweet fellowship at the house of God, as we walked about among the worshipers.”

Psalm 55:20-21

“My companion attacks his friends; he violates his covenant. His talk is smooth as butter, yet war is in his heart; his words are more soothing than oil, yet they are drawn swords.”

Psalm 109:4-5

“In return for my friendship they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer. They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my friendship.”

Psalm 143:3-4

“The enemy pursues me, he crushes me to the ground; he makes me dwell in the darkness like those long dead. So my spirit grows faint within me; my heart within me is dismayed.”

Jeremiah 9:4-5

“Beware of your friends; do not trust anyone in your clan. For every one of them is a deceiver, and every friend a slanderer. Friend deceives friend, and no one speaks the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they weary themselves with sinning.”

Jeremiah 12:6

“Your relatives, members of your own family— even they have betrayed you; they have raised a loud cry against you. Do not trust them, though they speak well of you.”

Jeremiah 20:10

“I hear many whispering, ‘Terror on every side! Denounce him! Let’s denounce him!’ All my friends are waiting for me to slip, saying, ‘Perhaps he will be deceived; then we will prevail over him and take our revenge on him.'”

Lamentations 1:2

“Bitterly she weeps at night, tears are on her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.”

Luke 6:16

“Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.”

Acts 7:9-10

“Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him and rescued him from all his troubles. He gave Joseph wisdom and enabled him to gain the goodwill of Pharaoh king of Egypt. So Pharaoh made him ruler over Egypt and all his palace.”

Galatians 4:16

“Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?”

2 Timothy 4:10

“For Demas, because he loved this world, has deserted me and has gone to Thessalonica.”

Proverbs 22:24-25

“Do not make friends with a hot-tempered person, do not associate with one easily angered, or you may learn their ways and get yourself ensnared.”

Proverbs 19:4

“Wealth attracts many friends, but even the closest friend of the poor person deserts them.”

Proverbs 12:26

“The righteous choose their friends carefully, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.”

Proverbs 2:12-15

“Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse, who have left the straight paths to walk in dark ways, who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil, whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways.”

John 2:24-25

“But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all people. He did not need any testimony about mankind, for he knew what was in each person.”

Psalm 55:21

“His talk is smooth as butter, yet war is in his heart; his words are more soothing than oil, yet they are drawn swords.”

2 Timothy 3:1-4

“But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.”

Proverbs 11:13

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

1 Samuel 18:3

“And Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself.”

1 Samuel 19:10

“Saul tried to pin him to the wall with his spear, but David eluded him as Saul drove the spear into the wall. That night David made good his escape.”

1 Samuel 23:16

“And Saul’s son Jonathan went to David at Horesh and helped him find strength in God.”

Proverbs 27:6

“Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses.”

Matthew 10:36

“a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.”

Matthew 26:25

“Then Judas, the one who would betray him, said, ‘Surely you don’t mean me, Rabbi?'”

Luke 6:22

““Blessed are you when people hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man.”

John 13:21

“After he had said this, Jesus was troubled in spirit and testified, “Very truly I tell you, one of you is going to betray me.”