Verse 19

A false witness who speaks lies, and one who sows discord among brethren.

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  • Ps 27:12 : 12 Do not deliver me to the will of my enemies; for false witnesses have risen against me, and such as breathe out violence.
  • Prov 6:14 : 14 Perversity is in his heart, he devises mischief continually; he sows discord.
  • 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.
  • Prov 12:17 : 17 He who speaks truth declares righteousness, but a false witness deceit.
  • Prov 25:18 : 18 A man who bears false witness against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, and a sharp arrow.
  • Prov 26:20 : 20 Where there is no wood, the fire goes out; so where there is no gossip, strife ceases.
  • Matt 15:19 : 19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
  • Matt 26:59 : 59 Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false testimony against Jesus, to put him to death;
  • Acts 6:13 : 13 They set up false witnesses who said, This man never ceases to speak words against this holy place and the law.
  • 2 Tim 2:23 : 23 But avoid foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they generate strife.
  • Jas 3:14-16 : 14 But if you have bitter envy and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. 15 This wisdom does not come down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where envy and strife are, there is confusion and every evil work.
  • Jas 3:18 : 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
  • 3 John 1:9-9 : 9 I wrote to the church: but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, does not receive us. 10 Therefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he does, prating against us with malicious words: and not content with that, neither does he himself receive the brethren, and forbids those who would, and casts them out of the church.
  • Prov 16:28 : 28 A perverse man sows strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.
  • Ps 35:11 : 11 False witnesses did rise up; they charged me with things that I knew not.
  • 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 19:16-20 : 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.
  • 1 Kgs 21:10-15 : 10 And set two men, worthless fellows, before him to bear witness against him, saying, You blasphemed God and the king. And then carry him out and stone him, that he may die. 11 And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants of his city, did as Jezebel had sent to them, and as it was written in the letters she had sent to them. 12 They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people. 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. 14 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead. 15 And it came to pass, 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 Cast out the scoffer, and contention shall go out; yes, strife and reproach shall cease.