Proverbs 6:19

What Yahweh Hates

¹⁸ A heart that devises wicked plans,
Feet that run rapidly to evil,
¹⁹ A false witness who utters lies,
And one who spreads strife among brothers.
²⁰ My son, observe the commandment of your father
And do not forsake the teaching of your mother;

Discord Among Brethren

False Witness

Sows Discord

Psalm 27:12

Do not deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries,
For false witnesses have risen against me,
And such as breathe out violence.

Proverbs 6:14

Who with perversity in his heart continually devises evil,
Who spreads strife.

Proverbs 12:17

He who speaks truth tells what is right,
But a false witness, deceit.

Proverbs 19:5

A false witness will not go unpunished,
And he who tells lies will not escape.

Proverbs 19:9

A false witness will not go unpunished,
And he who tells lies will perish.

Exodus 20:16

“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Exodus 23:1

“You shall not bear a false report; do not join your hand with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.

Deuteronomy 19:16-20

If a malicious witness rises up against a man to accuse him of wrongdoing,

1 Kings 21:10-15

and seat two worthless men before him, and let them testify against him, saying, ‘You cursed God and the king.’ Then take him out and stone him to death.”

Psalm 35:11

Malicious witnesses rise up;
They ask me of things that I do not know.

Proverbs 16:28

A perverse man spreads strife,
And a slanderer separates intimate friends.

Proverbs 22:10

Drive out the scoffer, and contention will go out,
Even strife and dishonor will cease.

Proverbs 25:18

Like a club and a sword and a sharp arrow
Is a man who bears false witness against his neighbor.

Proverbs 26:20

For lack of wood the fire goes out,
And where there is no whisperer, contention quiets down.

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders.

Matthew 26:59

Now the chief priests and the whole Council kept trying to obtain false testimony against Jesus, so that they might put Him to death.

Acts 6:13

They put forward false witnesses who said, “This man incessantly speaks against this holy place and the Law;

2 Timothy 2:23

But refuse foolish and ignorant speculations, knowing that they produce quarrels.

James 3:14-16

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth.

James 3:18

And the seed whose fruit is righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

3 John 1:9-10

I wrote something to the church; but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, does not accept what we say.