Parallel Verses
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:
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.
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 good unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear you not. 16 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: 17 And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbor; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, says the LORD.
Phrases
Cross References
Zechariah 7:9
Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassion every man to his brother:
Psalm 15:2
He that walks uprightly, and works righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart.
Ephesians 4:25
Therefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: 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 forever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
Isaiah 9:7
Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth even forever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
Zechariah 8:19
Thus says the LORD of hosts; 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
You shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.
Deuteronomy 10:12-13
And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your 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 his delight shall be in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after 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 know not me, says the LORD.
Hosea 4:1-2
Hear the word of the LORD, you children of Israel: for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land: Because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
Amos 5:15
Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish justice in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
Amos 5:24
But let justice run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Micah 6:8
He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
Micah 6:12
For her rich men are full of violence, and her inhabitants have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Matthew 5:9
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Luke 3:8-14
Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham 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 testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
1 Thessalonians 4:6
That no man transgress and wrong 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 gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
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.