Proverbs 6:19
A false witness who utters lies, And he who sows discord among brothers.
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- Ps 27:12 : 12 Don't deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, For false witnesses have risen up against me, Such as breathe out cruelty.
- Prov 6:14 : 14 In whose heart is perverseness, Who devises evil continually, Who always sows discord.
- Prov 19:5 : 5 A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.
- Prov 19:9 : 9 A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.
- Prov 12:17 : 17 He who is truthful testifies honestly, But a false witness lies.
- Prov 25:18 : 18 A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor Is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.
- Prov 26:20 : 20 For lack of wood a fire goes out; Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.
- Matt 15:19 : 19 For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
- Matt 26:59 : 59 Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;
- Acts 6:13 : 13 and set up false witnesses who said, "This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.
- 2 Tim 2:23 : 23 But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.
- Jas 3:14-16 : 14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth. 15 This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic. 16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.
- Jas 3:18 : 18 Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
- 3 John 1:9-9 : 9 I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn't accept what we say. 10 Therefore, if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words. Not content with this, neither does he himself receive the brothers, and those who would, he forbids and throws out of the assembly.
- Prov 16:28 : 28 A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.
- Ps 35:11 : 11 Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don't know about.
- Exod 20:16 : 16 "You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
- Exod 23:1 : 1 "You shall not spread a false report. Don't join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
- Deut 19:16-20 : 16 If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify against him of wrong-doing, 17 then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days; 18 and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother; 19 then shall you do to him, as he had thought to do to his brother: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you. 20 Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in the midst of you.
- 1 Kgs 21:10-15 : 10 and set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, You did curse God and the king. Then carry him out, and stone him to death. 11 The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had sent to them, according as it was written in the letters which she had sent to them. 12 They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people. 13 The two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him: and the base fellows bore witness against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did curse God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him to death with stones. 14 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead. 15 It happened, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead.
- Prov 22:10 : 10 Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; Yes, quarrels and insults will stop.
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14 In whose heart is perverseness, Who devises evil continually, Who always sows discord.
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18 and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother;
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4 Take you heed everyone of his neighbor, and don't you trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.
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20 My son, keep your father's commandment, And don't forsake your mother's teaching.
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8 The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: They go down into a person's innermost parts.
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16 "You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
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15 My son, don't walk in the way with them. Keep your foot from their path,
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