Verse 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.

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 19:15 : 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.
  • John 8:17 : 17 and also in your law it hath been written, that the testimony of two men are true;
  • 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;
  • 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,
  • 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.
  • 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 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;
  • 1 John 5:7-8 : 7 because three are who are testifying `in the heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these -- the three -- are one; 8 and three are who are testifying in the earth', the Spirit, and the water, and the blood, and the three are into the one.
  • Rev 11:3 : 3 and I will give to My two witnesses, and they shall prophesy days, a thousand, two hundred, sixty, arrayed with sackcloth;