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Proverbs 24:28
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New International Version
Do not testify against your neighbor without cause-- would you use your lips to mislead?
English Standard Version
Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.
New American Standard Bible
Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, And do not deceive with your lips.
King James Bible
Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive
not
with thy lips.
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Don't testify against your neighbor without cause. Don't deceive with your lips.
International Standard Version
Don't testify against your neighbor without a cause, and don't lie when you speak.
American Standard Version
Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause; And deceive not with thy lips.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Be not witness without cause against thy neighbour: and deceive not any man with thy lips.
Darby Bible Translation
Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and wouldest thou deceive with thy lips?
Young's Literal Translation
Be not a witness for nought against thy neighbour, Or thou hast enticed with thy lips.
Cross References
Ephesians 4:25
Why putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.
Leviticus 6:2
If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie to his neighbor in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or has deceived his neighbor;
Leviticus 6:3
Or have found that which was lost, and lies concerning it, and swears falsely; in any of all these that a man does, sinning therein:
Leviticus 19:11
You shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.
Proverbs 25:18
A man that bears false witness against his neighbor is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
Proverbs 26:19
So is the man that deceives his neighbor, and said, Am not I in sport?
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Commentaries
Matthew Henry's Commentary
24:28,29. There are three defaults in a witness pointed out.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
28. Do not speak even truth needlessly against any, and never falsehood.
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