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Proverbs 24:28

Bible in Basic English 1965

Do not be a violent witness against your neighbour, or let your lips say what is false.

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And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil? and he still keeps his righteousness, though you have been moving me to send destruction on him without cause.

False witnesses got up: they put questions to me about crimes of which I had no knowledge.

For without cause they have put a net ready for me secretly, in which to take my soul.

To the chief music-maker. Maschil. Of David. When Doeg the Edomite came to Saul saying, David has come to the house of Ahimelech. Why do you take pride in wrongdoing, lifting yourself up against the upright man all the day?

Do not give false witness against your neighbour.

Do not let a false statement go further; do not make an agreement with evil-doers to be a false witness.

A true witness does not say what is false, but a false witness is breathing out deceit.

A false witness will not go without punishment, and the breather out of deceit will not go free.

A false witness will not go without punishment, and the breather out of deceit will be cut off.

A false witness will be cut off, (UNTRANSLATED TEXT)

One who gives false witness against his neighbour is a hammer and a sword and a sharp arrow.

So is the man who gets the better of his neighbour by deceit, and says, Am I not doing so in sport?

Do not take anyone's property or be false in act or word to another.

If anyone does wrong, and is untrue to the Lord, acting falsely to his neighbour in connection with something put in his care, or something given for a debt, or has taken away anything by force, or has been cruel to his neighbour,

Or has taken a false oath about the loss of something which he has come across by chance; if a man has done any of these evil things,

And he said, Why, what evil has he done? But they gave loud cries, saying, To the cross with him!

This comes about so that the writing in their law may be made true, Their hate for me was without cause.

And so, putting away false words, let everyone say what is true to his neighbour: for we are parts one of another.

Do not make false statements to one another; because you have put away the old man with all his doings,

But those who are full of fear and without faith, the unclean and takers of life, those who do the sins of the flesh, and those who make use of evil powers or who give worship to images, and all those who are false, will have their part in the sea of ever-burning fire which is the second death.

Outside are the dogs, and those who make use of evil powers, those who make themselves unclean, and the takers of life, and those who give worship to images, and everyone whose delight is in what is false.




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