Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, nor deceive with your lips.

New American Standard Bible

Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause,
And do not deceive with your lips.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Don’t testify against your neighbor without cause.
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 neighbor without cause,
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 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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Be not a witness
עד 
`ed 
Usage: 69

and deceive
פּתה 
Pathah 
Usage: 28

Context Readings

More Sayings Of The Wise

27 Prepare your work outside, and make it fit for yourself in the field; and afterwards build your house. 28 Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, nor deceive with your lips. 29 Do not say, I will do so to him as he has done to me; I will give to the man according to his work.

Cross References

Ephesians 4:25

Therefore putting away lying, let each man speak truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.

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

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Exodus 23:1

You shall not raise a false report. Do not put your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

1 Samuel 22:9-10

And answered Doeg the Edomite, who 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 letter, saying, Proclaim a fast and set Naboth on high among the people.

Job 2:3

And Jehovah said unto Satan, Have you set your heart on My servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil? And still he is keeping hold of his integrity, although you moved Me against him to destroy him without cause.

Psalm 35:7

For without cause they have spread their net for me in a pit-net; without cause they have dug for my soul.

Psalm 35:11

Cruel witnesses rose up; they asked of me that which I never knew.

Psalm 52:1

To the Chief Musician. A contemplation. A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said to him, David has come to the house of Ahimelech. Why do you boast yourself in evil, O mighty man? The mercy of God endures forever.

Proverbs 14:5

A faithful witness will not lie, but a false witness will speak lies.

Proverbs 19:5

A false witness shall not be unpunished, and a breather of lies shall not escape.

Proverbs 19:9

A false witness shall not be unpunished, and one speaking lies shall perish.

Proverbs 21:28

A false witness shall perish, but the man who hears speaks on and on.

Matthew 26:59-60

And the chief priests and the elders and all the sanhedrin sought false witness against Jesus, in order to put Him to death.

Matthew 27:23

And the governor said, Why? What evil has He done? But they cried out the more, saying, let Him be crucified!

John 15:25

But that the Word might be fulfilled that is written in their Law, "They hated Me without a cause."

Colossians 3:9

Do not lie to one another, having put off the old man with his deeds

Revelation 21:8

But the fearful, and the unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, will have their part in the Lake burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

Revelation 22:15

But outside are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and makes a lie.

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