Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

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

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 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.

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 devising thoughts of vanity -- Feet hasting to run to evil -- 19 A false witness who doth breathe out lies -- And one sending forth contentions between brethren. 20 Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.

Cross References

Psalm 27:12

Give me not to the will of my adversaries, For risen against me have false witnesses, And they breathe out violence to me.

Proverbs 6:14

Frowardness is in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth.

Proverbs 12:17

Whoso uttereth faithfulness declareth righteousness, And a false witness -- deceit.

Proverbs 19:5

A false witness is not acquitted, Whoso breatheth out lies is not delivered.

Proverbs 19:9

A false witness is not acquitted, And whoso breatheth out lies perisheth.

Exodus 20:16

'Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour a false testimony.

Exodus 23:1

'Thou dost not lift up a vain report; thou dost not put thy hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness.

Deuteronomy 19:16-20

'When a violent witness doth rise against a man, to testify against him apostasy,

1 Kings 21:10-15

and cause two men -- sons of worthlessness -- to sit over-against him, and they testify of him, saying, Thou hast blessed God and Melech; and they have brought him out, and stoned him, and he dieth.'

Psalm 35:11

Violent witnesses rise up, That which I have not known they ask me.

Proverbs 16:28

A froward man sendeth forth contention, A tale-bearer is separating a familiar friend.

Proverbs 22:10

Cast out a scorner -- and contention goeth out, And strife and shame cease.

Proverbs 25:18

A maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow, Is the man testifying against his neighbour a false testimony.

Proverbs 26:20

Without wood is fire going out, And without a tale-bearer, contention ceaseth,

Matthew 15:19

for out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, whoredoms, thefts, false witnessings, evil speakings:

Matthew 26:59

And the chief priests, and the elders, and all the council, were seeking false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death,

Acts 6:13

they set up also false witnesses, saying, 'This one doth not cease to speak evil sayings against this holy place and the law,

2 Timothy 2:23

and the foolish and uninstructed questions be avoiding, having known that they beget strife,

James 3:14-16

and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;

James 3:18

and the fruit of the righteousness in peace is sown to those making peace.

3 John 1:9-10

I did write to the assembly, but he who is loving the first place among them -- Diotrephes -- doth not receive us;

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