Proverbs 19:9 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁹ A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who utters lies will perish.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ A false witness shall not be unpunished, And he that speaketh lies shall perish.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he who breathes forth lies shall perish.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ A false witness shall not be unpunished; And he that uttereth lies shall perish.

Common English Bible

⁹ False witnesses won’t go unpunished, and liars will perish.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ A false witness shall not go unpunished. And whoever speaks lies will perish.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ A false witness shall not be unpunished: and he that speaketh lies, shall perish.

Proverbs 19:9 Cross References

Proverbs 12:19

Truthful lips endure for ever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

Proverbs 19:5

A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who utters lies will not escape.

Proverbs 21:28

A false witness will perish, but the word of a man who hears will endure.

Proverbs 6:19

a false witness who breathes out lies, and a man who sows discord among brothers.

Ezekiel 13:22

Because you have disheartened the righteous falsely, although I have not disheartened him, and you have encouraged the wicked, that he should not turn from his wicked way to save his life;

Daniel 6:24

And the king commanded, and those men who had accused Daniel were brought and cast into the den of lions—they, their children, and their wives; and before they reached the bottom of the den the lions overpowered them and broke all their bones in pieces.

Revelation 19:20

And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had worked the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulphur.

Revelation 21:8

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, as for murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their lot shall be in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.”

Revelation 22:15

Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and fornicators and murderers and idolaters, and every one who loves and practices falsehood.