Deuteronomy 19:16

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`When a violent witness doth rise against a man, to testify against him apostacy,

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 27:12 : 12 Give me not to the will of my adversaries, For risen against me have false witnesses, And they breathe out violence to me.
  • Ps 35:11 : 11 Violent witnesses rise up, That which I have not known they ask me.
  • Exod 23:1-7 : 1 `Thou dost not lift up a vain report; thou dost not put thy hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness. 2 `Thou art not after many to evil, nor dost thou testify concerning a strife, to turn aside after many to cause `others' to turn aside; 3 and a poor man thou dost not honour in his strife. 4 `When thou meetest thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou dost certainly turn it back to him; 5 when thou seest the ass of him who is hating thee crouching under its burden, then thou hast ceased from leaving `it' to it -- thou dost certainly leave `it' with him. 6 `Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of thy needy one in his strife; 7 from a false matter thou dost keep far off, and an innocent and righteous man thou dost not slay; for I do not justify a wicked man.
  • 1 Kgs 21:10-13 : 10 and cause two men -- sons of worthlessness -- to sit over-against him, and they testify of him, saying, Thou hast blessed God and Melech; and they have brought him out, and stoned him, and he dieth.' 11 And the men of his city, the elders and the freemen who are dwelling in his city, do as Jezebel hath sent unto them, as written in the letters that she sent unto them, 12 they have proclaimed a fast, and caused Naboth to sit at the head of the people, 13 and two men -- sons of worthlessness -- come in, and sit over-against him, and the men of worthlessness testify of him, even Naboth, before the people, saying, `Naboth blessed God and Melech;' and they take him out to the outside of the city, and stone him with stones, and he dieth;
  • Mark 14:55-59 : 55 And the chief priests and all the sanhedrim were seeking against Jesus testimony -- to put him to death, and they were not finding, 56 for many were bearing false testimony against him, and their testimonies were not alike. 57 And certain having risen up, were bearing false testimony against him, saying -- 58 `We heard him saying -- I will throw down this sanctuary made with hands, and by three days, another made without hands I will build;' 59 and neither so was their testimony alike.
  • Acts 6:13 : 13 they set up also false witnesses, saying, `This one doth not cease to speak evil sayings against this holy place and the law,

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 15`One witness doth not rise against a man for any iniquity, and for any sin, in any sin which he sinneth; by the mouth of two witnesses, or by the mouth of three witnesses, is a thing established.

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    17then have both the men who have the strife stood before Jehovah, before the priests and the judges who are in those days,

    18and the judges have searched diligently, and lo, the witness `is' a false witness, a falsehood he hath testified against his brother:

    19`Then ye have done to him as he devised to do to his brother, and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst,

  • Exod 23:1-2
    2 verses
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    1`Thou dost not lift up a vain report; thou dost not put thy hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness.

    2`Thou art not after many to evil, nor dost thou testify concerning a strife, to turn aside after many to cause `others' to turn aside;

  • 5A faithful witness lieth not, And a false witness breatheth out lies.

  • 5A false witness is not acquitted, Whoso breatheth out lies is not delivered.

  • 17Whoso uttereth faithfulness declareth righteousness, And a false witness -- deceit.

  • Deut 17:6-7
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    77%

    6By the mouth of two witnesses or of three witnesses is he who is dead put to death; he is not put to death by the mouth of one witness;

    7the hand of the witnesses is on him, in the first place, to put him to death, and the hand of all the people last; and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst.

  • 11Violent witnesses rise up, That which I have not known they ask me.

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    56for many were bearing false testimony against him, and their testimonies were not alike.

    57And certain having risen up, were bearing false testimony against him, saying --

  • 16`Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour a false testimony.

  • 9A false witness is not acquitted, And whoso breatheth out lies perisheth.

  • 16and if he may not hear, take with thee yet one or two, that by the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may stand.

  • 19Against an elder an accusation receive not, except upon two or three witnesses.

  • 18A maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow, `Is' the man testifying against his neighbour a false testimony.

  • 19A false witness `who' doth breathe out lies -- And one sending forth contentions between brethren.

  • 25A true witness is delivering souls, And a deceitful one breatheth out lies.

  • 28A worthless witness scorneth judgment, And the mouth of the wicked swalloweth iniquity.

  • 1`When there is a strife between men, and they have come nigh unto the judgment, and they have judged, and declared righteous the righteous, and declared wrong the wrong-doer,

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    59And the chief priests, and the elders, and all the council, were seeking false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death,

    60and they did not find; and many false witnesses having come near, they did not find; and at last two false witnesses having come near,

  • 28A false witness doth perish, And an attentive man for ever speaketh.

  • 30whoso smiteth a person, by the mouth of witnesses doth `one' slay the murderer; and one witness doth not testify against a person -- to die.

  • 20`Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour -- a false testimony.

  • 28Be not a witness for nought against thy neighbour, Or thou hast enticed with thy lips.

  • Lev 6:2-3
    2 verses
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    2`When any person doth sin, and hath committed a trespass against Jehovah, and hath lied to his fellow concerning a deposit, or concerning fellowship, or concerning violent robbery, or hath oppressed his fellow;

    3or hath found a lost thing, and hath lied concerning it, and hath sworn to a falsehood, concerning one of all `these' which man doth, sinning in them:

  • 15and we also are found false witnesses of God, because we did testify of God that He raised up the Christ, whom He did not raise if then dead persons do not rise;

  • Exod 23:6-7
    2 verses
    70%

    6`Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of thy needy one in his strife;

    7from a false matter thou dost keep far off, and an innocent and righteous man thou dost not slay; for I do not justify a wicked man.

  • 13they set up also false witnesses, saying, `This one doth not cease to speak evil sayings against this holy place and the law,

  • 12Give me not to the will of my adversaries, For risen against me have false witnesses, And they breathe out violence to me.

  • 31that which a man sinneth against his neighbour, and he hath lifted up upon him an oath to cause him to swear, and the oath hath come in before Thine altar in this house,

  • 22`If a man doth sin against his neighbour, and he hath lifted up on him an oath to cause him to swear, and the oath hath come in before Thine altar in this house --

  • 31`If I testify concerning myself, my testimony is not true;

  • 9If the testimony of men we receive, the testimony of God is greater, because this is the testimony of God that He hath testified concerning His Son.

  • 17and also in your law it hath been written, that the testimony of two men are true;

  • 19Thou dost not turn aside judgment; thou dost not discern faces, nor take a bribe, for the bribe blindeth the eyes of the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

  • 1`And when a person doth sin, and hath heard the voice of an oath, and he `is' witness, or hath seen, or hath known -- if he declare not, then he hath borne his iniquity:

  • 6Thy mouth declareth thee wicked, and not I, And thy lips testify against thee.

  • 5Acceptance of the face of the wicked `is' not good, To turn aside the righteous in judgment.

  • 21Causing men to sin in word, And for a reprover in the gate lay a snare, And turn aside into emptiness the righteous.

  • 8Astonished are the upright at this, And the innocent against the profane Stirreth himself up.

  • 2`When there is found in thy midst, in one of thy cities which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, a man or a woman who doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah thy God by transgressing His covenant,

  • 13and it shall become to you for a testimony.

  • 13if it is certainly torn, he bringeth it in -- a witness; the torn thing he doth not repay.