Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

a FALSE witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

New American Standard Bible

A false witness who utters lies,
And one who spreads strife among brothers.

King James Version

A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

Holman Bible

a lying witness who gives false testimony,
and one who stirs up trouble among brothers.

International Standard Version

a false witness snorting lies, and someone sowing quarrels between brothers.

American Standard Version

A false witness that uttereth lies, And he that soweth discord among brethren.

Amplified


A false witness who breathes out lies [even half-truths],
And one who spreads discord (rumors) among brothers.

Bible in Basic English

A false witness, breathing out untrue words, and one who lets loose violent acts among brothers.

Darby Translation

a false witness that uttereth lies, and he that soweth discords among brethren.

Julia Smith Translation

A witness of falsehood, breathing out lies, and sending strife between brethren.

King James 2000

A false witness that speaks lies, and he that sows discord among brethren.

Lexham Expanded Bible

a false witness who breathes lies and sends out discord between brothers.

Modern King James verseion

a false witness who speaks lies, and he who causes fighting among brothers.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

a false witness that bringeth up lies, and such one as soweth discord among brethren.

NET Bible

a false witness who pours out lies, and a person who spreads discord among family members.

New Heart English Bible

a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

The Emphasized Bible

One that uttereth lies - a false witness, and one sending forth strifes between brethren.

Webster

A false witness that speaketh lies, and him that soweth discord among brethren.

World English Bible

a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

Youngs Literal Translation

A false witness who doth breathe out lies -- And one sending forth contentions between brethren.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
A false
שׁקר 
Sheqer 
Usage: 113

עד 
`ed 
Usage: 69

פּוּח 
Puwach 
Usage: 14

כּזב 
Kazab 
Usage: 30

and he that soweth
שׁלח 
Shalach 
Usage: 848

מדן 
M@dan 
Usage: 2

Context Readings

What Yahweh Hates

18 a heart that devises wicked purposes, feet that are swift in running to mischief, 19 a FALSE witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers. 20 My son, keep the commandment of thy father, and do not forsake the law of thy mother.

Cross References

Psalm 27:12

Deliver me not over to the will of my adversaries. For FALSE witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

Proverbs 6:14

in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who sows discord.

Proverbs 12:17

He who utters truth shows forth righteousness, but a FALSE witness, deceit.

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.

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.

Deuteronomy 19:16-20

If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrong-doing,

1 Kings 21:10-15

And set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them bear witness against him, saying, Thou cursed God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him to death.

Psalm 35:11

Unrighteous witnesses rise up, they ask me of things that I know not.

Proverbs 16:28

A perverse man scatters abroad strife, and a whisperer separates chief friends.

Proverbs 22:10

Cast out the scoffer, and contention will go out, yea, strife and reproach will cease.

Proverbs 25:18

A man who bears FALSE witness against his neighbor is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.

Proverbs 26:20

For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, contention ceases.

Matthew 15:19

For from the heart comes forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, FALSE witnessings, revilings.

Matthew 26:59

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

Acts 6:13

And they put forward FALSE witnesses who said, This man does not cease speaking blasphemous sayings against the holy place, and the law.

2 Timothy 2:23

But shun foolish and uneducated questions, knowing that they breed quarrels.

James 3:14-16

But if ye have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast, and do not lie against the truth.

James 3:18

And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace to those who make peace.

3 John 1:9-10

I wrote to the congregation, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first of them, did not accept us.

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