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A Conservative Version
Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause, and deceive not with thy lips.
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.
Holman Bible
Don’t deceive with your lips.
International Standard Version
Don't testify against your neighbor without a cause, and don't lie when you speak.
American Standard Version
Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause; And deceive not with thy lips.
Amplified
Do not be a witness against your
And do not deceive with your lips [speak neither lies nor half-truths].
Bible in Basic English
Do not be a violent witness against your neighbour, or let your lips say what is false.
Darby Translation
Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and wouldest thou deceive with thy lips?
Julia Smith Translation
Thou shalt not be a witness gratuitously against thy neighbor, and deceive not with thy lips.
King James 2000
Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause; and deceive not with your lips.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Do not be a witness without cause against your neighbor nor deceive with your lips.
Modern King James verseion
Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, nor deceive with your lips.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Be no false witness against thy neighbour, and hurt him not with thy lips.
NET Bible
Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your words.
New Heart English Bible
Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Do not deceive with your lips.
The Emphasized Bible
Do not become a needless witness against thy neighbour, so mightest thou open too wide thy lips:
Webster
Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.
World English Bible
Don't be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don't deceive with your lips.
Youngs Literal Translation
Be not a witness for nought against thy neighbour, Or thou hast enticed with thy lips.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 24:28
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More Sayings Of The Wise
27 Prepare thy work outside, and make it ready for thee in the field, and afterwards build thy house. 28 Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause, and deceive not with thy lips. 29 Say not, I will do so to him as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work.
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Ephesians 4:25
Therefore having put off falsehood, let each man speak truth with his neighbor, because we are body-parts of each other.
Proverbs 25:18
A man who bears FALSE witness against his neighbor is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
Exodus 20:16
Thou shall not bear FALSE witness against thy neighbor.
Exodus 23:1
Thou shall not take up a FALSE report. Do not put thy hand with the wicked man to be an unrighteous witness.
1 Samuel 22:9-10
Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
1 Kings 21:9-13
And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
Job 2:3
And LORD said to Satan, Have thou considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. And he still holds fast his integrity, although thou m
Psalm 35:7
For without cause they have hid their net for me [in] a pit. Without cause have they dug [a pit] for my soul.
Psalm 35:11
Unrighteous witnesses rise up, they ask me of things that I know not.
Psalm 52:1
Why boast thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? The loving kindness of God [is] continual.
Proverbs 14:5
A faithful witness will not lie, but a FALSE witness utters lies.
Proverbs 19:5
A FALSE witness shall not be unpunished, and he who utters lies shall not escape.
Proverbs 19:9
A FALSE witness shall not be unpunished, and he who utters lies shall perish.
Proverbs 21:28
A FALSE witness shall perish, but the man who hears shall speak so as to endure.
Matthew 26:59-60
Now the chief priests and the elders and the whole council sought FALSE testimony against Jesus, so that they might put him to death,
Matthew 27:23
And the governor said, For what evil has he done? But they cried out even more, saying, He should be crucified.
John 15:25
But, that the word that is written in their law may be fulfilled, They hated me without cause.
Colossians 3:9
Do not lie to each other, having stripped off the old man with his practices,
Revelation 21:8
But for the cowards, and unbelieving, and sinful, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
Revelation 22:15
Outside are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every man who loves and makes a lie.