Parallel Verses
King James Version
Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.
New American Standard Bible
And
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.
A Conservative Version
Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause, and deceive not with thy lips.
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 without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house. 28 Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips. 29 Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.
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Cross References
Ephesians 4:25
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
Proverbs 25:18
A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
Exodus 20:16
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Exodus 23:1
Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
1 Samuel 22:9-10
Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over 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 the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.
Psalm 35:7
For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
Psalm 35:11
False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
Psalm 52:1
{To the chief Musician, Maschil, A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech.} Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.
Proverbs 14:5
A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.
Proverbs 19:5
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.
Proverbs 19:9
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.
Proverbs 21:28
A false witness shall perish: but the man that heareth speaketh constantly.
Matthew 26:59-60
Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;
Matthew 27:23
And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified.
John 15:25
But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
Colossians 3:9
Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
Revelation 21:8
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Revelation 22:15
For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.