Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

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

A Conservative Version

a FALSE witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among 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 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 plots wicked plans, feet hurrying to run to evil, 19 a false witness who speaks lies, and he who causes fighting among brothers. 20 My son, keep your father's commandments, and do not forsake the law of your mother;


Cross References

Psalm 27:12

Deliver me not over to the will of my enemies; for false witnesses have risen up against me, and he that breathes out cruelty.

Proverbs 6:14

perversity is in his heart; he is always planning mischief; he causes fighting.

Proverbs 12:17

He who breathes truth shows forth righteousness, but a false witness deceit.

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.

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.

Deuteronomy 19:16-20

If a false witness rises up against any man to testify a falling away against him,

1 Kings 21:10-15

And set two men, sons of Belial, before him to bear witness against him, saying, You blasphemed God and the king. And carry him out and stone him so that he may die.

Psalm 35:11

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

Proverbs 16:28

A perverse man causes fighting, and a whisperer separates chief friends.

Proverbs 22:10

Cast out the scorner, and fighting shall go out; yes, quarrels and shame shall 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

Where there is no wood, the fire goes out; and where there is no talebearer, the fighting ceases.

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies;

Matthew 26:59

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

Acts 6:13

And they set up false witnesses, who said, This man does not cease speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the Law.

2 Timothy 2:23

But avoid foolish and unlearned questions, knowing that they give birth to strifes.

James 3:14-16

But if you have bitter jealousy and strife in your hearts, do not glory and lie against the truth.

James 3:18

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

3 John 1:9-10

I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, did not receive us.

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