Proverbs 24:28

New English Translation

Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your words.

Cross References

Job 2:3

Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil. And he still holds firmly to his integrity, so that you stirred me up to destroy him without reason.”

Psalm 35:11

Violent men perjure themselves, and falsely accuse me.

Psalm 35:7

I did not harm them, but they hid a net to catch me and dug a pit to trap me.

Psalm 52:1

Why do you boast about your evil plans, O powerful man? God’s loyal love protects me all day long!

Exodus 20:16

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

Exodus 23:1

“You must not give a false report. Do not make common cause 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 the one who spouts out lies will not escape punishment.

Proverbs 19:9

A false witness will not go unpunished, and the one who spouts out lies will perish.

Proverbs 21:28

A lying witness will perish, but the one who reports accurately speaks forever.

Proverbs 25:18

Like a club or a sword or a sharp arrow, so is the one who testifies against his neighbor as a false witness.

Proverbs 26:19

so is a person who deceives his neighbor, and says, “Was I not only joking?”

Leviticus 19:11

“‘You must not steal, you must not tell lies, and you must not deal falsely with your fellow citizen.

Leviticus 6:2

“When a person sins and commits a trespass against the Lord by deceiving his fellow citizen in regard to something held in trust, or a pledge, or something stolen, or by extorting something from his fellow citizen,

Leviticus 6:3

or has found something lost and denies it and swears falsely concerning any one of the things that someone might do to sin –

Matthew 27:23

He asked, “Why? What wrong has he done?” But they shouted more insistently, “Crucify him!”

John 15:25

Now this happened to fulfill the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without reason.’

Ephesians 4:25

Therefore, having laid aside falsehood, each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.

Colossians 3:9

Do not lie to one another since you have put off the old man with its practices

Revelation 21:8

But to the cowards, unbelievers, detestable persons, murderers, the sexually immoral, and those who practice magic spells, idol worshipers, and all those who lie, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. That is the second death.”

Revelation 22:15

Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the sexually immoral, and the murderers, and the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood!