‘You must not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked to be a malicious witness.
Exodus 20:16 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Do not give false testimony against your neighbour. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You shall not witness falsely against your neighbor. [Exod. 23:1; Prov. 19:9; 24:28.] American Standard Version (1901) Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. Common English Bible Do not testify falsely against your neighbor. Catholic Public Domain Version You shall not speak false testimony against your neighbor. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. |
‘You must not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked to be a malicious witness.
The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool.
A gossip goes around revealing a secret, but a trustworthy person keeps a confidence.
A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who utters lies will not escape.
A person giving false testimony against his neighbour is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.
Do not go about spreading slander among your people; do not jeopardise your neighbour’s life; I am the Lord.
Do not take revenge or bear a grudge against members of your community, but love your neighbour as yourself; I am the Lord.
‘Which ones? ’ he asked him. Jesus answered: Do not murder; do not commit adultery; do not steal; do not bear false witness;
Some soldiers also questioned him, ‘What should we do? ’ He said to them, ‘Don’t take money from anyone by force or false accusation, and be satisfied with your wages.’
They also presented false witnesses who said, ‘This man never stops speaking against this holy place and the law.
Let all bitterness, anger and wrath, shouting and slander be removed from you, along with all malice.
for the sexually immoral and males who have sex with males, for slave traders, liars, perjurers, and for whatever else is contrary to the sound teaching
unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good,
Don’t criticise one another, brothers and sisters. Anyone who defames or judges a fellow believer defames and judges the law. If you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.