Proverbs 24:28

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Job 2:3

The Lord said to the accuser, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man who fears God and turns away from evil. He still persists in his integrity, although you incited me against him, to destroy him for no reason.”

Psalm 35:11

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

Psalm 35:7

For without cause they hid their net for me; without cause they dug a pit for my life.

Psalm 52:1

Why do you boast, O mighty one, of mischief done against the godly? All day long

Exodus 20:16

“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Exodus 23:1

“You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with the wicked to act as a malicious witness.

Proverbs 14:5

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

Proverbs 19:5

A false witness will not go unpunished, and a liar will not escape.

Proverbs 19:9

A false witness will not go unpunished, and the liar will perish.

Proverbs 21:28

A false witness will perish, but a good listener will testify successfully.

Proverbs 25:18

Like a war club, a sword, or a sharp arrow is one who bears false witness against a neighbor.

Proverbs 26:19

so is one who deceives a neighbor and says, “I am only joking!”

Leviticus 19:11

“You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; and you shall not lie to one another.

Leviticus 6:2

“When any of you sin and commit a trespass against the Lord by deceiving a neighbor in a matter of a deposit or a pledge or by robbery or if you have defrauded a neighbor

Leviticus 6:3

or have found something lost and lied about it—if you swear falsely regarding any of the various things that one may do and sin—

Matthew 27:23

Then he asked, “Why, what evil has he done?” But they shouted all the more, “Let him be crucified!”

John 15:25

It was to fulfill the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

Ephesians 4:25

So then, putting away falsehood, let each of you speak the truth with your neighbor, for we are members of one another.

Colossians 3:9

Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have stripped off the old self with its practices

Revelation 21:8

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, the murderers, the sexually immoral, the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Revelation 22:15

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