Exodus 20:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ You shall not witness falsely against your neighbor. [Exod. 23:1; Prov. 19:9; 24:28.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Do not testify falsely against your neighbor.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ You shall not speak false testimony against your neighbor.

Exodus 20:16 Cross References

Proverbs 19:5

A false witness will not go unpunished, and a liar will not escape.

Matthew 19:18

He said to him, “Which ones?” And Jesus said, “You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness.

Psalm 15:3

who do not slander with their tongue and do no evil to their friends nor heap shame upon their neighbors;

Exodus 23:1

“You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with the wicked to act as a malicious witness.

Proverbs 10:18

Lying lips conceal hatred, and whoever utters slander is a fool.

James 4:11

Do not speak evil against one another, brothers and sisters. Whoever speaks evil against another or judges another speaks evil against the law and judges the law, but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

1 Timothy 1:10

the sexually immoral, men who engage in illicit sex, slave traders, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to the sound teaching

Ephesians 4:31

Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice.

Acts 6:13

They set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops saying things against this holy place and the law,

2 Timothy 3:3

unfeeling, implacable, slanderers, profligates, brutes, haters of good,

Proverbs 11:13

A gossip goes about telling secrets, but one who is trustworthy in spirit keeps a confidence.

Leviticus 19:11

“You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; and you shall not lie to one another.

Leviticus 19:16

You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand idly by when the blood of your neighbor is at stake: I am the Lord.

Luke 3:14

Soldiers also asked him, “And we, what should we do?” He said to them, “Do not extort money from anyone by threats or false accusation, and be satisfied with your wages.”

Leviticus 19:18

You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against any of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.

Deuteronomy 5:20

“ ‘Neither shall you bear false witness against your neighbor.

Proverbs 25:18

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