Parallel Verses
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.
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;
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 I turned back.; I had in mind in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: ye shall not fear. 16 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. 17 And ye shall not purpose evil, a man to his neighbor, in your heart; and ye shall not love the oath of falsehood: for all these which I hated, says Jehovah.
Phrases
Cross References
Zechariah 7:9
Thus said Jehovah of armies, saying. Judge ye the judgment of truth, and do mercy and compassions each to his brother.
Psalm 15:2
He going blameless, and working justice, and speaking truth in his heart.
Ephesians 4:25
Wherefore falsehood ye having put away, speak the truth each with his neighbor: for ye are members one of another.
Proverbs 12:17
He breathing out faithfulness will announce justice: and a witness of falsehoods, deceit
Proverbs 12:19
The lip of truth shall be prepared forever: and the tongue of falsehood while I shall wink.
Isaiah 9:7
To the increase of his dominion and to peace no end, upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom to prepare it and to support it in judgment and in justice from now and even to forever: the zeal of Jehovah of armies will do this.
Zechariah 8:19
Thus said Jehovah of armies: The fast of the fourth, 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 for joy and for gladness, and for good appointments; and love ye truth and peace.
Leviticus 19:11
Ye shall not steal and ye shall not deceive, and ye shall not lie each to his neighbor.
Deuteronomy 10:12-13
And now, Israel, what does Jehovah thy God ask from thee but to fear Jehovah thy God, to go in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Jehovah thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
Deuteronomy 11:7-8
For your eyes saw every great doing of Jehovah which he did.
Isaiah 11:3-9
His sweet odor in the fear of Jehovah: and not according to the seeing of his eyes shall he judge, and not according to the hearing of his ears shall he decide.
Jeremiah 9:3-5
And they will bend their tongue, their bow, a lie: and they were not strong for faithfulness upon the land; for from evil to evil they went forth, and they knew me not, says Jehovah.
Hosea 4:1-2
Hear the word of Jehovah, ye sons of Israel: for a contention to Jehovah with the inhabitants of the land, for no truth and no kindness and no knowledge of God in the land.
Amos 5:15
Hate evil and love good, and set ye judgment in the gate: perhaps Jehovah God of armies will compassionate the remnant of Joseph.
Amos 5:24
Judgment shall roll as the waters, and justice as a torrent of strength.
Micah 6:8
He announced to thee, O man, what was good; and what did Jehovah require of thee but to do judgment and to love mercy, and being humbled, to go with thy God?
Micah 6:12
For her rich ones were full of violence, and her inhabitants spake falsehood, and their tongue of deceit in their mouth.
Matthew 5:9
Happy they making peace: for they shall be called sons of God.
Luke 3:8-14
Do ye therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to, say in yourselves, We have a father A braham : for I say to you, That God is able to raise children to Abraham of these stones.
Ephesians 4:17
Therefore this I say, and testify in the Lord, that ye no more walk as also the rest of the nations, in the vanity of their mind,
1 Thessalonians 4:6
Not to pass over and have the advantage over his brother in business: because the Lord just for all these, as we told you before and testified.
1 Peter 1:13-16
Wherefore having girded up the loins of your mind, living abstemiously, hope perfectly upon the grace brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ;
Revelation 21:8
But to the cowardly, and unbelieving, and to the abominable, and murderers, and to fornicators, and charmers, and to idolaters, and to all the lying, their part in the lake burning with fire and sulphur: which is the second death,