Proverbs 25:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ Like a war club, a sword, or a sharp arrow is one who bears false witness against a neighbor.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour Is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ A man who bears false witness against his neighbor is like a heavy sledgehammer and a sword and a sharp arrow.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ A man that beareth false witness against his neighbor Is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ People who testify falsely against their neighbors are like a club, sword, and sharpened arrow.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ A man who speaks false testimony against his neighbor is like a dart and a sword and a sharp arrow.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour, is like a dart and a sword and a sharp arrow.

Proverbs 25:18 Krydshenvisninger

Psalm 140:3

They make their tongue sharp as a snake’s, and under their lips is the venom of vipers. Selah

Psalm 52:2

you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery.

Psalm 55:21

with speech smoother than butter but with a heart set on war, with words that were softer than oil but in fact were drawn swords.

Psalm 57:4

I lie down among lions that greedily devour human prey; their teeth are spears and arrows, their tongues sharp swords.

Exodus 20:16

“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Proverbs 12:18

Rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Proverbs 24:28

Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.

Proverbs 25:17

Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor’s house, lest the neighbor become weary of you and hate you.

Jeremiah 9:3

They bend their tongues like bows; they have grown strong in the land for falsehood and not for truth, for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:8

Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit through the mouth. They all speak friendly words to their neighbors but inwardly are planning to lay an ambush.

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is placed among our members as a world of iniquity; it stains the whole body, sets on fire the cycle of life, and is itself set on fire by hell.