Proverbs 24:28

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

Job 2:3

And the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from 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 that I know not.

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 man, of mischief done against the godly? All the day

Exodus 20:16

“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Exodus 23:1

“You shall not utter a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man, to be 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 he who utters lies will not escape.

Proverbs 19:9

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

Proverbs 21:28

A false witness will perish, but the word of a man who hears will endure.

Proverbs 25:18

A man who bears false witness against his neighbor is like a war club, or a sword, or a sharp arrow.

Proverbs 26:19

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 any one sins and commits a breach of faith against the Lord by deceiving his neighbor in a matter of deposit or security, or through robbery, or if he has oppressed his neighbor

Leviticus 6:3

or has found what was lost and lied about it, swearing falsely—in any of all the things which men do and sin therein,

Matthew 27:23

And he said, “Why, what evil has he done?” But they shouted all the more, “Let him be crucified.”

John 15:25

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

Ephesians 4:25

Therefore, putting away falsehood, let every one speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

Colossians 3:9

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

Revelation 21:8

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, as for murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their lot shall be in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.”

Revelation 22:15

Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and fornicators and murderers and idolaters, and every one who loves and practices falsehood.