Deuteronomy 5:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

Neither shall you bear false witness against your neighbor.

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  • Exod 20:16 : 16 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
  • Exod 23:1 : 1 You shall not spread a false report; do not join hands with the wicked to be a dishonest witness.
  • Deut 19:16-21 : 16 If a false witness rises against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing; 17 Then both men in the controversy shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who serve in that time; 18 And the judges shall make careful inquiry, and indeed, if the witness is a false witness who has testified falsely against his brother; 19 Then you shall do to him as he thought to have done to his brother; so you shall put away the evil from among you. 20 And those who remain shall hear and fear, and shall no longer commit any such evil among you. 21 Your eye shall not pity; but life shall be for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
  • 1 Kgs 21:13 : 13 And two men, worthless fellows, came in and sat before him; and the men bore witness against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth blasphemed God and the king. Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him with stones, so that he died.
  • Prov 6:19 : 19 A false witness who speaks lies, and one who sows discord among brethren.
  • Prov 19:5 : 5 A false witness shall not go unpunished, and he who speaks lies shall not escape.
  • Prov 19:9 : 9 A false witness shall not go unpunished, and he who speaks lies shall perish.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who oppress the laborer in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who turn aside the stranger from his right, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 20:13-17
    5 verses
    95%

    13 You shall not murder.

    14 You shall not commit adultery.

    15 You shall not steal.

    16 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

    17 You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.

  • Deut 5:17-19
    3 verses
    87%

    17 You shall not kill.

    18 Neither shall you commit adultery.

    19 Neither shall you steal.

  • Deut 5:21
    85%

    21 Neither shall you desire your neighbor's wife, nor shall you covet your neighbor's house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.

  • Lev 19:11-13
    3 verses
    83%

    11 You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.

    12 And you shall not swear by my name falsely, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.

    13 You shall not defraud your neighbor, nor rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

  • Lev 18:20
    79%

    20 Moreover, you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, to defile yourself with her.

  • Exod 23:1
    79%

    1 You shall not spread a false report; do not join hands with the wicked to be a dishonest witness.

  • Prov 24:28
    78%

    28 Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.

  • Lev 19:15-18
    4 verses
    78%

    15 You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: you shall not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.

    16 You shall not go around as a talebearer among your people; nor shall you stand against the life of your neighbor: I am the LORD.

    17 You shall not hate your brother in your heart; you shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not suffer sin upon him.

    18 You shall not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.

  • Matt 19:18-19
    2 verses
    77%

    18 He said to him, Which ones? Jesus said, You shall not murder, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness,

    19 Honor your father and your mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

  • Deut 5:11-12
    2 verses
    76%

    11 You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

    12 Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD your God has commanded you.

  • Exod 20:7-9
    3 verses
    76%

    7 You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.

    8 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

    9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

  • Deut 19:14-16
    3 verses
    76%

    14 You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which the men of old have set in your inheritance, which you shall inherit in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess.

    15 One witness shall not rise against a man concerning any iniquity or any sin that he commits; by the mouth of two or three witnesses the matter shall be established.

    16 If a false witness rises against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing;

  • Prov 14:5
    75%

    5 A faithful witness will not lie, but a false witness will utter lies.

  • Prov 25:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    17 Withdraw your foot from your neighbor's house, lest he become weary of you and so hate you.

    18 A man who bears false witness against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, and a sharp arrow.

  • Prov 19:5
    74%

    5 A false witness shall not go unpunished, and he who speaks lies shall not escape.

  • Zech 8:17
    74%

    17 And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbor; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, says the LORD.

  • Prov 3:29
    74%

    29 Do not devise evil against your neighbor, seeing he dwells securely by you.

  • Rom 13:9
    74%

    9 For the commandments, 'You shall not commit adultery,' 'You shall not murder,' 'You shall not steal,' 'You shall not bear false witness,' 'You shall not covet,' and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'

  • Luke 18:20
    74%

    20 You know the commandments: Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor your father and your mother.

  • Matt 5:33
    74%

    33 Again, you have heard that it was said to those of old, 'You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform your oaths to the Lord:'

  • Lev 25:14
    73%

    14 And if you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy anything of your neighbor's hand, you shall not oppress one another:

  • Deut 5:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7 You shall have no other gods before me.

    8 You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:

  • Mark 10:19
    73%

    19 You know the commandments: Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.

  • Ps 15:3
    73%

    3 He who does not slander with his tongue, nor do evil to his neighbor, nor take up a reproach against his neighbor.

  • Matt 5:27
    72%

    27 You have heard that it was said to those of old, 'You shall not commit adultery:'

  • Exod 20:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3 You shall have no other gods before Me.

    4 You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

  • Prov 25:9
    71%

    9 Debate your cause with your neighbor himself; and do not disclose a secret to another;

  • Exod 23:7
    71%

    7 Keep far from a false matter, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked.

  • Lev 6:2
    71%

    2 If a person sins and commits a trespass against the LORD, and lies to his neighbor about something delivered to him to keep, or about a pledge, or about something taken away by violence, or has deceived his neighbor;

  • Deut 19:18
    71%

    18 And the judges shall make careful inquiry, and indeed, if the witness is a false witness who has testified falsely against his brother;