Proverbs 21:28 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁸ A false witness will perish, but the word of a man who hears will endure.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ A false witness shall perish: But the man that heareth speaketh constantly.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ A false witness will perish, but the word of a man who hears attentively will endure and go unchallenged.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ A false witness shall perish; But the man that heareth shall speak so as to endure.

Common English Bible

²⁸ A lying witness will perish, but one who listens will testify successfully.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ A lying witness will perish. An obedient man shall speak of victory.

Proverbs 21:28 Cross References

2 Corinthians 4:13

Since we have the same spirit of faith as he had who wrote, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we too believe, and so we speak,

Proverbs 19:5

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

Proverbs 19:9

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

Titus 3:8

The saying is sure. I desire you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to apply themselves to good deeds; these are excellent and profitable to men.

Acts 12:15

They said to her, “You are mad.” But she insisted that it was so. They said, “It is his angel!”

Proverbs 25:18

A man who bears false witness against his neighbor is like a war club, or a sword, or a sharp arrow.

Proverbs 12:19

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

Proverbs 6:19

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

Exodus 23:1

“You shall not utter a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man, to be a malicious witness.