Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
These are the things which you should do: speak the
King James Version
These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:
Holman Bible
These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another; make true and sound decisions within your gates.
International Standard Version
Here's what you must do: tell the truth to your neighbors, administer true and peaceful justice in your courtrooms,
A Conservative Version
These are the things that ye shall do: Speak ye every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates.
American Standard Version
These are the things that ye shall do: speak ye every man the truth with his neighbor; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates;
Amplified
These are the things which you should do: speak the truth with one another; judge with truth and pronounce the judgment that brings peace in [the courts at] your gates.
Bible in Basic English
These are the things which you are to do: Let every man say what is true to his neighbour; and let your judging give peace in your towns.
Darby Translation
These are the things that ye shall do: Speak truth every one with his neighbour; execute truth and the judgment of peace in your gates;
Julia Smith Translation
These the words which ye shall do: speak the truth each with his neighbor; truth and the judgment of peace judge ye in your gates.
King James 2000
These are the things that you shall do; Speak you every man the truth to his neighbor; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:
Lexham Expanded Bible
These [are] the things that you must do: speak truth, each [of you], with his neighbor; practice trustworthy judgment and peace in your gates.
Modern King James verseion
These are the things that you shall do. Each man speak the truth to his neighbor. Judge with truth and justice for peace in your gates.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Now the things that ye shall do, are these: Speak every man the truth unto his neighbour, execute judgment truly, and peaceably within your ports,
NET Bible
These are the things you must do: Speak the truth, each of you, to one another. Practice true and righteous judgment in your courts.
New Heart English Bible
These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,
The Emphasized Bible
These, are the things which ye shall do: Speak ye the truth, every man with his neighbour, truth and the sentence of peace, pronounce ye in your gates;
Webster
These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:
World English Bible
These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,
Youngs Literal Translation
These are the things that ye do: Speak ye truth each with his neighbour, Truth and peaceful judgment judge in your gates,
Themes
Court » Civil » The gates of cities
Courts of justice » Judges of » To promote peace
Divine Requirements » General references to
Gates » Holding courts of justice
Social duties » In relation to food in relation to speech » Truthfulness
Speech/communication » What should proceed out of your mouth
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Zechariah 8:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh's Promise To Jerusalem
15
so again have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah; do not fear.
16 These are the things which you should do: speak the
Phrases
Cross References
Zechariah 7:9
Thus hath the LORD of the hosts spoken, saying, Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassion each one to his brother;
Psalm 15:2
He that walks in integrity and works righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart.
Ephesians 4:25
Therefore, leaving the lie, speak every man truth with his neighbour, for we are members one of another.
Proverbs 12:17
He that speaks truth shows forth righteousness, but a false witness, deceit.
Proverbs 12:19
The lip of truth shall be established for ever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
Isaiah 9:7
The multitude of his dominion and the peace shall have no end upon the throne of David and upon his Kingdom, ordering it and confirming it in judgment and in righteousness from now on even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of the hosts will perform this.
Zechariah 8:19
Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said, The fast of the fourth month and the fast of the fifth and the fast of the seventh and the fast of the tenth shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.
Leviticus 19:11
Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.
Deuteronomy 10:12-13
And now, Israel, what does the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways and to love him and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
Deuteronomy 11:7-8
but your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did.
Isaiah 11:3-9
and shall make him of quick olfaction in the fear of the LORD; and he shall not judge according to the sight of his eyes, neither reprove according to the hearing of his ears:
Jeremiah 9:3-5
And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies, but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth for they proceed from evil to evil, and they did not recognize me, said the LORD.
Hosea 4:1-2
Hear the word of the LORD, ye sons of Israel; for the LORD contends with the inhabitants of the land because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the earth.
Amos 5:15
Hate the evil and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate; it may be that the LORD God of the hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
Amos 5:24
But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Micah 6:8
He has declared unto thee, O man, what is good and what the LORD requires of thee: only to do right judgment, and to love mercy, and to humble thyself to walk with thy God.
Micah 6:12
With which their rich men are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Matthew 5:9
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the sons of God.
Luke 3:8-14
Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
Ephesians 4:17
This I say, therefore, and require in the Lord that from now on ye not walk as the other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their own senses,
1 Thessalonians 4:6
that no one oppress and defraud his brother in any matter because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
1 Peter 1:13-16
Therefore, having the loins of your understanding girded with temperance, wait perfectly in the grace that is presented unto you when Jesus, the Christ, is manifested unto you,
Revelation 21:8
But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.