Proverbs 25:18
Whoso beareth false witnesse against his neighbour, he is a very club, a sworde, and a sharpe arrowe.
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- Ps 57:4 : 4 My soule is among Lions, and I lye among those that are set on fire: among the children of men whose teeth are speares and arrowes, and their tongue a sharpe sword.
- Prov 12:18 : 18 A slaunderous person pricketh lyke a sworde: but a wise mans tongue is wholsome.
- Jer 9:8 : 8 Their tongues are like sharpe arrowes to speake deceipt: with their mouth they speake peaceablie to their neighbour, but priuilie they lay wayte for hym.
- Jas 3:6 : 6 And the tongue is fyre, euen a worlde of wickednesse. So is the tongue set among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fyre the course of nature, & it is set on fyre of hell.
- Prov 24:28 : 28 Be not a false witnesse against thy neighbour, and speake no falsehood with thy lippes.
- Jer 9:3 : 3 They bend their tongues like vowes to shoote out lyes, they waxe strong vppon earth: As for the trueth, they may nothing away withall in the worlde, for they go from one wickednes to another, and wyll not knowe me, saith the Lorde.
- Ps 120:3-4 : 3 What doth a deceiptfull tongue vnto thee? what good bryngeth it thee? 4 So much as sharpe arrowes of a strong man in thy sydes: with Iuniper coales powred on thy head.
- Ps 140:3 : 3 They haue sharpened their tongue lyke a serpent: Adders poyson is vnder their lippes. Selah.
- Ps 52:2 : 2 Thy tongue imagineth wickednes: and deceaueth like a sharpe raser.
- Ps 55:21 : 21 The wordes of his mouth were softer then butter, yet warre was in his heart: his wordes were smother then oyle, and yet be they very swordes.
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19 A false witnesse that bringeth vp lyes, and hym that soweth discorde among brethren.
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5 A false witnesse shall not be vnpunished: and he that speaketh lyes shall not escape.
- Prov 12:17-182 verses77%
17 A iust man wyll tell the trueth and shewe the thyng that is ryght: but a false witnesse deceaueth.
18 A slaunderous person pricketh lyke a sworde: but a wise mans tongue is wholsome.
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16 Thou shalt not beare false witnesse agaynst thy neyghbour.
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18 As he that fayneth him selfe mad, casteth firebrandes, deadly arrowes and dartes:
19 So doth a dissembler with his neighbour, and saith, am not I in sport?
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16 If a false witnesse rise vp agaynst a man, to accuse hym of trespasse:
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28 Be not a false witnesse against thy neighbour, and speake no falsehood with thy lippes.
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8 Their tongues are like sharpe arrowes to speake deceipt: with their mouth they speake peaceablie to their neighbour, but priuilie they lay wayte for hym.
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9 A false witnesse shall not be vnpunished: and he that speaketh lyes shall perishe.
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19 The confidence that is put in an vnfaythfull man in tyme of trouble, is like a broken tooth, and a sliding foote.
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5 A faithfull witnesse will not dissemble: but a false recorde wyll make a lye.
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20 Thou shalt not beare false witnesse agaynst thy neyghbour.
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28 A false witnesse shall perishe: but a good man speaketh constantly what he hath hearde.
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5 Who so flattereth his neighbour, layeth a net for his feete.
- Prov 16:27-293 verses73%
27 An vngodly person stirreth vp euyll, and in his lippes he is as an hotte burnyng fyre.
28 A frowarde body causeth strife: and he that is a blabbe of his tongue maketh deuision among princes.
29 A wicked man beguyleth his neyghbour, and leadeth hym into the way that is not good:
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25 A faythfull witnesse deliuereth soules: but a deceiptfull witnesse bryngeth foorth lyes.
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17 Withdrawe thy foote from thy neighbours house: lest he be werie of thee, and so hate thee.
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18 And the iudges shall make diligent inquisition: and if the witnesse be founde false, and that he hath geuen false witnesse agaynst his brother:
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3 He that backbyteth not with his tongue: nor doth any euil to his felowe, nor rayseth a slaunder vpon his neyghbour.
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1 Thou shalt not haue to do with any false report, neither shalt thou put thine hand with the wicked, to be an vnrighteous witnesse.
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18 He that hydeth hatred with lying lippes, and he that speaketh slaunder, is a foole.
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27 Who so diggeth vp a pit, shal fall therin: and he that rolleth vp a stone, it wyl returne vpon hym.
28 A lying tongue hateth the afflicted: and a flattering mouth worketh mischiefe.
- Jer 9:4-52 verses72%
4 Yea, one must kepe hym selfe from another, no man may safely trust his owne brother: for one brother vndermindeth another, one neighbour beguileth another.
5 Yea, one dissembleth with another, and they deale with no trueth: They haue practised their tongues to lye, and taken great paynes to do mischiefe.
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4 A wicked body geueth heede to false lippes, and a lyer geueth eare to a deceiptfull tongue.
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28 A wicked witnesse mocketh iudgement: and the mouth of the vngodly deuoureth wickednesse.
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3 Who haue whet their tongue lyke a sword: who haue drawne their arrow, euen a bitter worde.
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2 Thy tongue imagineth wickednes: and deceaueth like a sharpe raser.
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8 The wordes of a slaunderer are very woundes, and go through vnto the innermost partes of the body.
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3 What doth a deceiptfull tongue vnto thee? what good bryngeth it thee?
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22 A talebearers wordes are lyke men that strike with hammers, and they pearse the inwarde partes of the body.
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14 The vngodly haue drawen out the sworde, and haue bended their bowe: to cast downe the poore and needie, and to slay such as be of right conuersation.
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11 But and if any man hate his neyghbour, and lay awayte for hym, and ryse agaynst hym, and smyte hym that he die, & then fleeth vnto any of these cities:
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24 Cursed be he that smyteth his neighbour secretly: and all the people shall say, Amen.
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16 Thou shalt not go vp and downe with tales among thy people, neither shalt thou stande agaynst the blood of thy neighbour: I am the Lorde.
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6 Thou wilt destroy them that make a lye: God wyll abhorre both the bloodthirstie and deceiptfull man.
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18 Who so promiseth by the hande and is suretie for his neighbour, he is a foole.
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9 Who so remoueth stones, shall haue trauayle withall: and he that heweth wood, shalbe hurt therwith.
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21 Making a man to sinne in the worde, and that toke him in a snare, whiche reproued them in the open place, and they that haue turned the cause of the righteous to naught.
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19 And yf a man cause a blemishe in his neighbour: as he hath done, so shall it be done to hym.
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20 Who so hath a frowarde heart, obteyneth no good: and he that hath a double tongue, shall fall into mischiefe.
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19 Thou hast let thy mouth speake wickednesse: and with thy tongue thou hast set foorth deceipt.
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12 An vngodly person, a wicked man, goeth with a frowarde mouth.
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3 Howe long wyll ye imagine mischiefe against euery man? ye shalbe slayne all the sort of you: ye shalbe as a tottering wall, and like a broken hedge.
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7 His mouth is full of cursing, and of deceate, and of fraude: vnder his tongue is labour and mischiefe.