Proverbs 24:28

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Summary

Proverbs 24:28

Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.

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Deceive

Bible References

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A faithful witness lieth not, And a false witness breatheth out lies.

A false witness is not acquitted, Whoso breatheth out lies is not delivered.

A false witness doth perish, And an attentive man for ever speaketh.

'Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour a false testimony.

'Thou dost not lift up a vain report; thou dost not put thy hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness.

And answer doth Doeg the Edomite, who is set over the servants of Saul, and saith, 'I have seen the son of Jesse coming in to Nob, unto Ahimelech son of Ahitub,

and she writeth in the letters, saying, 'Proclaim a fast, and cause Naboth to sit at the head of the people,

And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, 'Hast thou set thy heart unto My servant Job because there is none like him in the land, a man perfect and upright, fearing God and turning aside from evil? and still he is keeping hold on his integrity, and thou dost move Me against him to swallow him up for nought!'

For without cause they hid for me their netpit, Without cause they digged for my soul.

To the Overseer. -- An instruction, by David, in the coming in of Doeg the Edomite, and he declareth to Saul, and saith to him, 'David came in unto the house of Ahimelech.' What, boasteth thou in evil, O mighty one? The kindness of God is all the day.

but -- that the word may be fulfilled that was written in their law -- They hated me without a cause.

Deceive

Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices,

and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part is in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'

and without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the whoremongers, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one who is loving and is doing a lie.