Proverbs 14:5 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

⁵ A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ A faithful witness will not lie: But a false witness will utter lies.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ A faithful witness will not lie, but a false witness breathes out falsehoods.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ A faithful witness will not lie; But a false witness uttereth lies.

Common English Bible

⁵ A truthful witness doesn’t lie, but a false witness spews lies.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ A faithful witness will not lie. But a deceitful witness offers a lie.

Proverbs 14:5 Cross References

Proverbs 19:5

A false witness shall not be unpunished; and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.

Proverbs 6:19

a false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

Exodus 23:1

Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

Proverbs 12:17

He that speaketh truth showeth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.

Proverbs 14:25

A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies.

Proverbs 19:9

A false witness shall not be unpunished; and he that speaketh lies shall perish.

Proverbs 13:5

A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.

1 Kings 21:13

And there came in two men, children of Be´li-al, and sat before him: and the men of Be´li-al witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.

Exodus 20:16

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

Revelation 1:5

and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first-begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

Revelation 3:14

And unto the angel of the church of the La-odice´ans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God.

Deuteronomy 19:16

If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;

Proverbs 14:4

Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.

Proverbs 14:6

A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.