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Lexham Expanded Bible
Do not be a witness without cause against your neighbor nor deceive with your 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.
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.
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 your work in the street and get it ready for yourself in the field; afterward, then you shall build your house. 28 Do not be a witness without cause against your neighbor nor deceive with your lips. 29 Do not say, "Just as he has done to me, so shall I do to him; I will pay back the man according to his deed."
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Ephesians 4:25
Therefore, putting aside the lie, speak truth each one of you with his neighbor, because we are members of one another.
Proverbs 25:18
[Like] a club and sword and a sharp arrow [is] a man who bears false witness against his neighbor.
Exodus 20:16
"You shall not testify against your neighbor [with] a false witness.
Exodus 23:1
" 'You will not {spread} a false report. Do not lift your hand with [the] wicked to be a malicious witness.
1 Samuel 22:9-10
But Doeg the Edomite, who [was] stationed among the servants of Saul, answered and said, "I saw the son of Jesse going to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
1 Kings 21:9-13
She had written in the letters, saying, "Call a fast and seat Naboth at the head of the people.
Job 2:3
So Yahweh {asked} Satan, "Have you {considered} my servant Job? Indeed, there is no one like him on the earth--a blameless man and upright and God-fearing and turning away from evil. And still he persists in his blamelessness {even though} you incited me against him to destroy him for nothing."
Psalm 35:7
For without cause they secretly hide the pit with their net for me; without cause they dug [it] for my life.
Psalm 35:11
Violent witnesses rise up; they ask me [concerning] what I do not know.
Psalm 52:1
Why do you boast about evil, O mighty man? The loyal love of God [endures] {continually}.
Proverbs 14:5
A faithful witness does not lie, but he who breathes out falsehood is a witness of deceit.
Proverbs 19:5
A witness of falsehood will not go unpunished, and he who breathes lies will not escape.
Proverbs 19:9
A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes lies will perish.
Proverbs 21:28
A false witness will perish, but a man who listens will testify with success.
Matthew 26:59-60
Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for false testimony against Jesus in order that they could put him to death.
Matthew 27:23
And he said, "Why? What wrong has he done?" But they began to shout even louder, saying, "Let him be crucified!"
John 15:25
But [this happened] so that the word that is written in their law would be fulfilled, 'They hated me without a reason.'
Colossians 3:9
Do not lie to one another, [because you] have taken off the old man together with his deeds,
Revelation 21:8
But [as] for the cowards and unbelievers and detestable persons and murderers and sexually immoral people and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their share [is] in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.
Revelation 22:15
Outside [are] the dogs and the sorcerers and the sexually immoral people and the murderers and the idolaters and everyone who loves and who practices falsehood.