Proverbs 24:28

Modern English Version

Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause, and deceive not with your lips.

Cross References

Job 2:3

The Lord said to the Adversary, “Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and an upright man, who fears God and avoids evil? He still holds fast his integrity, although you moved Me against him, to destroy him without cause.”

Psalm 35:11

Malicious witnesses rise up; they ask me of things I do not know.

Psalm 35:7

For without cause they have hidden their net for me in a pit, which they have dug without cause for my life.

Psalm 52:1

Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The goodness of God endures continually.

Exodus 20:16

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Exodus 23:1

You must not give a false report. Do not join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

Proverbs 14:5

A truthful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies.

Proverbs 19:5

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

Proverbs 19:9

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

Proverbs 21:28

A lying witness will perish, but a man who listens will speak forever.

Proverbs 25:18

Like a club, or a sword, or a sharp arrow, so is a man who bears false witness against his neighbor.

Proverbs 26:19

so is the man who deceives his neighbor, and says, “I am only joking!”

Leviticus 19:11

You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.

Leviticus 6:2

If a person sins and commits a trespass against the Lord by lying to his neighbor concerning something left in storage or entrusted to him, or about a theft, or if he has extorted from his neighbor,

Leviticus 6:3

or if he has found a lost item and lies about it, and swears falsely concerning any one of these sins that a man may commit;

Matthew 27:23

The governor said, “Why, what evil has He done?” But they cried out all the more, “Let Him be crucified!”

John 15:25

But that the word which is written in their law might be fulfilled, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’

Ephesians 4:25

Therefore, putting away lying, let every man speak truthfully with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.

Colossians 3:9

Do not lie one to another, since you have put off the old nature with its deeds,

Revelation 21:8

But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the abominable, the murderers, the sexually immoral, the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars shall have their portion in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone. This is the second death.”

Revelation 22:15

Outside are dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters and everyone who loves and practices a lie.