Parallel Verses

World English Bible

Don't be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don't 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 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.

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 get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house. 28 Don't be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don't deceive with your lips. 29 Don't say, "I will do to him as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work."



Cross References

Ephesians 4:25

Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

Proverbs 25:18

A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.

Exodus 20:16

"You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

Exodus 23:1

"You shall not spread a false report. Don't join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

1 Samuel 22:9-10

Then Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, answered and said, "I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.

1 Kings 21:9-13

She wrote in the letters, saying, "Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

Job 2:3

Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause."

Psalm 35:7

For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

Psalm 35:11

Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don't know about.

Psalm 52:1

Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God's loving kindness endures continually.

Proverbs 14:5

A truthful witness will not lie, but a false witness pours out lies.

Proverbs 19:5

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.

Proverbs 19:9

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.

Proverbs 21:28

A false witness will perish, and a man who listens speaks to eternity.

Matthew 26:59-60

Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;

Matthew 27:23

But the governor said, "Why? What evil has he done?" But they cried out exceedingly, saying, "Let him be crucified!"

John 15:25

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, 'They hated me without a cause.'

Colossians 3:9

Don't lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

Revelation 21:8

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."

Revelation 22:15

Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

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