Proverbs 19:5
¶ A false witness shall not be unpunished, and [he that] speaketh lies shall not escape.
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- Exod 23:1 : 1 ¶ Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
- Prov 21:28 : 28 ¶ A false witness shall perish: but the man that heareth speaketh constantly.
- Prov 6:19 : 19 A false witness [that] speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
- Prov 19:9 : 9 ¶ A false witness shall not be unpunished, and [he that] speaketh lies shall perish.
- Dan 6:24 : 24 And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast [them] into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.
- Deut 5:11 : 11 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold [him] guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
- Deut 19:16-21 : 16 If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him [that which is] wrong; 17 Then both the men, between whom the controversy [is], shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days; 18 And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, [if] the witness [be] a false witness, [and] hath testified falsely against his brother; 19 Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you. 20 And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you. 21 And thine eye shall not pity; [but] life [shall go] for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
- 1 Kgs 2:9 : 9 Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou [art] a wise man, and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood.
- Ps 120:3-4 : 3 What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue? 4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
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