⁸ He who acquires wisdom loves life. He who guards understanding finds good. ⁹ A false witness will not go unpunished,
And he who tells lies will perish.
¹⁰ Delight is not the custom of a fool much less for a servant to rule over princes.

Phrases

False Witness

Will Not Go Unpunished

Cross References

Proverbs 19:5

A false witness will not go unpunished. The liar will not escape.

Isaiah 9:15-17

Elders and dignitaries are the head, and prophets who teach lies are the tail.

Jeremiah 23:25-32

I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy falsely in my name. They say: 'I had a dream! I had a dream!

Jeremiah 28:15-17

Then Jeremiah the prophet told the prophet Hananiah: Listen, Hananiah! Jehovah did not send you. You are making these people believe a lie.

Jeremiah 29:31-32

Send this message to all the captives. This is what Jehovah says about Shemaiah from Nehelam: Shemaiah prophesied to you, but I did not send him. He has made you believe a lie.

Ezekiel 13:22

You have discouraged righteous people with your lies, even though I had not brought them any grief. You encouraged wicked people not to turn from their wicked ways to save their lives.

2 Thessalonians 2:8-10

Then the evil (lawless) one will be revealed. The Lord Jesus will put him to death with the breath of his mouth, and destroy him by the manifestation (brightness) (advent) (revelation) of his coming. (Greek: parousia: presence, return, being near)

1 Timothy 4:1-2

The Spirit explicitly says that some will fall away from the faith (truth) in later times. Spirits and doctrines of demons will seduce them,

2 Peter 2:1-3

There arose false prophets among the people. There will be false teachers among you! They will privately bring in destructive heresies (contrary doctrines), denying even the Master who bought them. They bring swift destruction on themselves.

Revelation 19:20

The beast was captured, and with him the false prophet that performed signs before him, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast, and those who worshiped his image. These both were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with sulfur.

Revelation 21:8

But the fearful and unbelieving, abominable and murderers, fornicators and those practicing spiritism, idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur: which is the second death.

Revelation 22:15

Outside are the dogs (impure men) and those who practice spiritism, and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters, and everyone who tells lies.'