Proverbs 25:18 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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 Cross References

Psalm 140:3

They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; Adders' poison is under their lips. Selah

Psalm 52:2

Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness; Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Psalm 55:21

His mouth was smooth as butter, But his heart was war: His words were softer than oil, Yet were they drawn swords.

Psalm 57:4

My soul is among lions; I lie among them that are set on fire, Even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.

Exodus 20:16

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Proverbs 12:18

There is that speaketh rashly like the piercings of a sword: But the tongue of the wise is health.

Proverbs 24:28

Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; And deceive not with thy lips.

Proverbs 25:17

Let thy foot be seldom in thy neighbour's house; Lest he be weary of thee, and hate thee.

Jeremiah 9:3

And they bend their tongue as it were their bow for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 9:8

Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in his heart he layeth wait for him.

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell.