Verse 28

Don't be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don't deceive with your lips.

Referenced Verses

  • Eph 4:25 : 25 Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.
  • Prov 25:18 : 18 A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.
  • Matt 26:59-60 : 59 Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death; 60 and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward,
  • Matt 27:23 : 23 But the governor said, "Why? What evil has he done?" But they cried out exceedingly, saying, "Let him be crucified!"
  • John 15:25 : 25 But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, 'They hated me without a cause.'
  • Col 3:9 : 9 Don't lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."
  • Rev 22:15 : 15 Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
  • 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.
  • 1 Sam 22:9-9 : 9 Then Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, answered and said, "I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub. 10 He inquired of Yahweh for him, gave him food, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine."
  • 1 Kgs 21:9-9 : 9 She wrote in the letters, saying, "Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people. 10 Set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, 'You cursed 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. The base fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, "Naboth cursed God and the king!" Then they carried him out of the city, and stoned him to death with stones.
  • Job 2:3 : 3 Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause."
  • Ps 35:7 : 7 For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
  • Ps 35:11 : 11 Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don't know about.
  • Ps 52:1 : 1 Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God's loving kindness endures continually.
  • Prov 14:5 : 5 A truthful witness will not lie, but a false witness pours out lies.
  • 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 21:28 : 28 A false witness will perish, and a man who listens speaks to eternity.