Verse 16

If a false witnesse rise vp against a man to accuse him of trespasse,

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 27:12 : 12 Giue me not vnto the lust of mine aduersaries: for there are false witnesses risen vp against me, and such as speake cruelly.
  • Ps 35:11 : 11 Cruell witnesses did rise vp: they asked of me things that I knewe not.
  • Exod 23:1-7 : 1 Thou shalt not receiue a false tale, neyther shalt thou put thine hande with the wicked, to be a false witnes. 2 Thou shalt not followe a multitude to do euil, neither agree in a controuersie to decline after many and ouerthrowe the trueth. 3 Thou shalt not esteeme a poore man in his cause. 4 If thou meete thine enemies oxe, or his asse going astray, thou shalt bring him to him againe. 5 If thou see thine enemies asse lying vnder his burden, wilt thou cease to helpe him? Thou shalt helpe him vp againe with it. 6 Thou shalt not ouerthrowe the right of thy poore in his sute. 7 Thou shalt keepe thee farre fro a false matter, and shalt not slaye the innocent and the righteous: for I will not iustifie a wicked man.
  • 1 Kgs 21:10-13 : 10 And set two wicked men before him, & let them witnesse against him, saying, Thou diddest blaspheme God and the King: then cary him out, and stone him that he may dye. 11 And the men of his citie, euen the Elders & gouernours, which dwelt in his citie, did as Iezebel had sent vnto them: as it was written in the letters, which she had sent vnto them. 12 They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth among the chiefe of the people, 13 And there came two wicked men, & sate before him: & the wicked men witnessed against Naboth in the presence of the people saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the King. Then they caried him away out of the citie, and stoned him with stones, that he dyed.
  • Mark 14:55-59 : 55 And the hie Priests, and all the Councill sought for witnesse against Iesus, to put him to death, but found none. 56 For many bare false witnesse against him, but their witnesse agreed not together. 57 Then there arose certaine, and bare false witnesse against him, saying, 58 We hearde him say, I will destroy this Temple made with hands, & within three daies I will builde another, made without hands. 59 But their witnesse yet agreed not together.
  • Acts 6:13 : 13 And set forth false witnesses, which sayd, This man ceasseth not to speake blasphemous wordes against this holy place, and the Law.