Leviticus 19:16

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`Thou dost not go slandering among thy people; thou dost not stand against the blood of thy neighbour; I `am' Jehovah.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 23:1 : 1 `Thou dost not lift up a vain report; thou dost not put thy hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness.
  • Exod 23:7 : 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.
  • Ezek 22:9 : 9 Men of slander have been in thee to shed blood, And on the mountains they have eaten in thee, Wickedness they have done in thy midst.
  • Ps 15:3 : 3 He hath not slandered by his tongue, He hath not done to his friend evil; And reproach he hath not lifted up Against his neighbour.
  • Prov 11:13 : 13 A busybody is revealing secret counsel, And the faithful of spirit is covering the matter.
  • Prov 20:19 : 19 A revealer of secret counsels is the busybody, And for a deceiver `with' his lips make not thyself surety.
  • Jer 6:28 : 28 All of them are turned aside by apostates, Walking slanderously -- brass and iron, All of them are corrupters.
  • Jer 9:4 : 4 Each of his friend -- beware ye, And on any brother, do not trust, For every brother doth utterly supplant, For every friend slanderously doth walk,
  • Matt 26:60-61 : 60 and they did not find; and many false witnesses having come near, they did not find; and at last two false witnesses having come near, 61 said, `This one said, I am able to throw down the sanctuary of God, and after three days to build it.'
  • 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;
  • Acts 6:11-13 : 11 then they suborned men, saying -- `We have heard him speaking evil sayings in regard to Moses and God.' 12 They did stir up also the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and having come upon `him', they caught him, and brought `him' to the sanhedrim; 13 they set up also false witnesses, saying, `This one doth not cease to speak evil sayings against this holy place and the law,
  • Acts 24:4-9 : 4 and that I may not be further tedious to thee, I pray thee to hear us concisely in thy gentleness; 5 for having found this man a pestilence, and moving a dissension to all the Jews through the world -- a ringleader also of the sect of the Nazarenes -- 6 who also the temple did try to profane, whom also we took, and according to our law did wish to judge, 7 and Lysias the chief captain having come near, with much violence, out of our hands did take away, 8 having commanded his accusers to come to thee, from whom thou mayest be able, thyself having examined, to know concerning all these things of which we accuse him;' 9 and the Jews also agreed, professing these things to be so.
  • 1 Tim 3:11 : 11 Women -- in like manner grave, not false accusers, vigilant, faithful in all things.
  • 2 Tim 3:3 : 3 without natural affection, implacable, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, not lovers of those who are good,
  • Titus 2:3 : 3 aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers,
  • 1 Pet 2:1 : 1 Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings,
  • Exod 20:16 : 16 `Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour a false testimony.
  • Matt 27:4 : 4 `I did sin, having delivered up innocent blood;' and they said, `What -- to us? thou shalt see!'

Similar Verses (AI)

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

  • Lev 19:17-18
    2 verses
    81%

    17 `Thou dost not hate thy brother in thy heart; thou dost certainly reprove thy fellow, and not suffer sin on him.

    18 `Thou dost not take vengeance, nor watch the sons of thy people; and thou hast had love to thy neighbour as thyself; I `am' Jehovah.

  • Lev 19:11-15
    5 verses
    80%

    11 `Ye do not steal, nor feign, nor lie one against his fellow.

    12 `And ye do not swear by My name to falsehood, or thou hast polluted the name of thy God; I `am' Jehovah.

    13 `Thou dost not oppress thy neighbour, nor take plunder; the wages of the hireling doth not remain with thee till morning.

    14 `Thou dost not revile the deaf; and before the blind thou dost not put a stumbling block; and thou hast been afraid of thy God; I `am' Jehovah.

    15 `Ye do not do perversity in judgment; thou dost not lift up the face of the poor, nor honour the face of the great; in righteousness thou dost judge thy fellow.

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    15 `Thou dost not steal.

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

    17 `Thou dost not desire the house of thy neighbour, thou dost not desire the wife of thy neighbour, or his man-servant, or his handmaid, or his ox, or his ass, or anything which `is' thy neighbour's.'

  • Deut 5:19-20
    2 verses
    78%

    19 `Thou dost not steal.

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

  • Exod 23:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    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 He hath not slandered by his tongue, He hath not done to his friend evil; And reproach he hath not lifted up Against his neighbour.

  • 14 `Thou dost not remove a border of thy neighbour, which they of former times have made, in thine inheritance, which thou dost inherit in the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee to possess it.

  • Zech 8:16-17
    2 verses
    74%

    16 These `are' the things that ye do: Speak ye truth each with his neighbour, Truth and peaceful judgment judge in your gates,

    17 And each the evil of his neighbour ye do not devise in your heart, And a false oath ye do not love, For all these `are' things that I have hated, An affirmation of Jehovah.'

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

  • 17 and ye do not oppress one another, and thou hast been afraid of thy God; for I `am' Jehovah your God.

  • Lev 18:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

    20 `And unto the wife of thy fellow thou dost not give thy seed of copulation, for uncleanness with her.

    21 `And of thy seed thou dost not give to pass over to the Molech; nor dost thou pollute the name of thy God; I `am' Jehovah.

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    10 and innocent blood is not shed in the midst of thy land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee -- an inheritance, and there hath been upon thee blood.

    11 `And when a man is hating his neighbour, and hath lain in wait for him, and risen against him, and smitten him -- the life, and he hath died, and he hath fled unto one of these cities,

  • 19 A revealer of secret counsels is the busybody, And for a deceiver `with' his lips make not thyself surety.

  • 35 `Ye do not do perversity in judgment, in mete-yard, in weight, or in liquid measure;

  • 10 and any strife that cometh in unto you of your brethren who are dwelling in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and command, statutes, and judgments, then ye have warned them and they become not guilty before Jehovah, and wrath hath not been on you and on your brethren; thus do ye do, and ye are not guilty.

  • 72%

    17 Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house, Lest he be satiated `with' thee, and have hated thee.

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

  • 29 Devise not against thy neighbour evil, And he sitting confidently with thee.

  • Exod 23:6-7
    2 verses
    71%

    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.

  • 14 `And when thou sellest anything to thy fellow, or buyest from the hand of thy fellow, ye do not oppress one another;

  • Prov 25:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8 Go not forth to strive, haste, turn, What dost thou in its latter end, When thy neighbour causeth thee to blush?

    9 Thy cause plead with thy neighbour, And the secret counsel of another reveal not,

  • 11 and all Israel do hear and fear, and add not to do like this evil thing in thy midst.

  • 4 Each of his friend -- beware ye, And on any brother, do not trust, For every brother doth utterly supplant, For every friend slanderously doth walk,

  • 33 `And when a sojourner sojourneth with thee in your land, thou dost not oppress him;

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    6 Thou destroyest those speaking lies, A man of blood and deceit Jehovah doth abominate.

  • 8 thou dost not consent to him, nor hearken unto him, nor doth thine eye have pity on him, nor dost thou spare, nor dost thou cover him over.

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    19 Thou 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.

    20 Righteousness -- righteousness thou dost pursue, so that thou livest, and hast possessed the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

  • 28 `And a cutting for the soul ye do not put in your flesh; and a writing, a cross-mark, ye do not put on you; I `am' Jehovah.

  • 13 `Thou dost not murder.

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    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,

    20 and those who are left do hear and fear, and add not to do any more according to this evil thing in thy midst;

  • 11 Speak not one against another, brethren; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, doth speak against law, and doth judge law, and if law thou dost judge, thou art not a doer of law but a judge;

  • 7 `Thou dost not take up the name of Jehovah thy God for a vain thing, for Jehovah acquitteth not him who taketh up His name for a vain thing.

  • 17 `Thou dost not murder.

  • 13 A busybody is revealing secret counsel, And the faithful of spirit is covering the matter.