Verse 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.

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Cor 13:1 : 1 This third time do I come unto you; on the mouth of two witnesses or three shall every saying be established;
  • Num 35:30 : 30 whoso smiteth a person, by the mouth of witnesses doth `one' slay the murderer; and one witness doth not testify against a person -- to die.
  • Matt 18:16 : 16 and 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.
  • John 8:17 : 17 and also in your law it hath been written, that the testimony of two men are true;
  • Deut 17:6 : 6 By 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;
  • 1 Tim 5:19 : 19 Against an elder an accusation receive not, except upon two or three witnesses.
  • Heb 10:28 : 28 any one who did set at nought a law of Moses, apart from mercies, by two or three witnesses, doth die,
  • Rev 11:3-7 : 3 and I will give to My two witnesses, and they shall prophesy days, a thousand, two hundred, sixty, arrayed with sackcloth; 4 these are the two olive `trees', and the two lamp-stands that before the God of the earth do stand; 5 and if any one may will to injure them, fire doth proceed out of their mouth, and doth devour their enemies, and if any one may will to injure them, thus it behoveth him to be killed. 6 These have authority to shut the heaven, that it may not rain rain in the days of their prophecy, and authority they have over the waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the land with every plague, as often as they may will. 7 `And when they may finish their testimony, the beast that is coming up out of the abyss shall make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them,
  • 1 Kgs 21:10 : 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.'
  • 1 Kgs 21:13 : 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;
  • 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.'