Exodus 20:16
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16 (A)“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
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Proverbs 19:5
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Matthew 19:18
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18 He said to him, “Which ones?” And Jesus said, (A)“You shall not murder, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness,
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Psalm 15:3
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3 who (A)does not slander with his tongue
and does no evil to his neighbor,
nor (B)takes up a reproach against his friend;
Matthew 26:59-60
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59 Now the chief priests and the whole council[a] (A)were seeking false testimony against Jesus that they might put him to death, 60 but they found none, (B)though many false witnesses came forward. At last (C)two came forward
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- Matthew 26:59 Greek Sanhedrin
Deuteronomy 19:15-21
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Laws Concerning Witnesses
15 “A single witness shall not suffice against a person for any crime or for any wrong in connection with any offense that he has committed. (A)Only on the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses shall a charge be established. 16 If (B)a malicious witness arises to accuse a person of wrongdoing, 17 then both parties to the dispute shall appear before the Lord, (C)before the priests and the judges who are in office in those days. 18 The judges shall (D)inquire diligently, and if the witness is a false witness and has accused his brother falsely, 19 (E)then you shall do to him as he had meant to do to his brother. So you shall purge the evil[a] from your midst. 20 And the rest (F)shall hear and fear, and shall never again commit any such evil among you. 21 (G)Your eye shall not pity. (H)It shall be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
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- Deuteronomy 19:19 Or evil person
Exodus 23:1
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23 (A)“You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a (B)malicious witness.
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Proverbs 10:18
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18 The one who conceals hatred has lying lips,
and whoever utters slander is a fool.
James 4:11
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11 (A)Do not speak evil against one another, brothers.[a] The one who speaks against a brother or (B)judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
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- James 4:11 Or brothers and sisters
1 Timothy 1:10
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10 the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers,[a] liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to (A)sound[b] doctrine,
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- 1 Timothy 1:10 That is, those who take someone captive in order to sell him into slavery
- 1 Timothy 1:10 Or healthy
Ephesians 4:31
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31 (A)Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.
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Acts 6:13
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13 and they (A)set up false (B)witnesses who said, “This man never ceases to speak words against (C)this holy place and the law,
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Psalm 101:5-7
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5 Whoever slanders his neighbor (A)secretly
I will (B)destroy.
Whoever has a (C)haughty look and an (D)arrogant heart
I will not endure.
6 I will look with favor on the faithful in the land,
that they may dwell with me;
he who walks in (E)the way that is blameless
shall minister to me.
7 No one who (F)practices deceit
shall dwell in my house;
no one who utters lies
shall (G)continue before my eyes.
2 Timothy 3:3
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3 (A)heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, (B)not loving good,
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Proverbs 11:13
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13 Whoever (A)goes about slandering reveals secrets,
but he who is trustworthy in spirit keeps a thing covered.
1 Samuel 22:8-19
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8 that all of you have conspired against me? No one discloses to me (A)when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse. None of you (B)is sorry for me or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, (C)to lie in wait, as at this day.” 9 Then answered (D)Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, “I saw the son of Jesse (E)coming to Nob, to (F)Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, 10 (G)and he inquired of the Lord for him and (H)gave him provisions and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”
11 Then the king sent to summon Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests who were at Nob, and all of them came to the king. 12 And Saul said, “Hear now, son of Ahitub.” And he answered, “Here I am, my lord.” 13 And Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread and a sword and (I)have inquired of God for him, so that he has risen against me, (J)to lie in wait, as at this day?” 14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, “And who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and captain over[a] your bodyguard, and honored in your house? 15 Is today the first time (K)that I have inquired of God for him? No! Let not the king impute anything to his servant or to all the house of my father, for your servant has known nothing of all this, (L)much or little.” 16 And the king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father's house.” 17 And the king said to (M)the guard who stood about him, “Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, because their hand also is with David, and they knew that he fled and did not disclose it to me.” But the servants of the king would not put out their hand to strike the priests of the Lord. 18 Then the king said to Doeg, “You turn and strike the priests.” And Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests, (N)and he killed on that day eighty-five persons who wore the linen ephod. 19 And Nob, the city of the priests, he put to the sword; (O)both man and woman, child and infant, ox, donkey and sheep, he put to the sword.
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- 1 Samuel 22:14 Septuagint, Targum; Hebrew and has turned aside to
Leviticus 19:11
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11 (A)“You shall not steal; (B)you shall not deal falsely; you shall not lie to one another.
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Exodus 23:6-7
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6 (A)“You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his lawsuit. 7 (B)Keep far from a false charge, and (C)do not kill the innocent and righteous, for (D)I will not acquit the wicked.
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Leviticus 19:16
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16 (A)You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not (B)stand up against the life[a] of your neighbor: I am the Lord.
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- Leviticus 19:16 Hebrew blood
1 Kings 21:10-13
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10 And set two (A)worthless men opposite him, and let them bring a charge against him, saying, (B)‘You have cursed[a] God and the king.’ Then take him out and stone him to death.” 11 And the men of his city, (C)the elders and the leaders who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had sent word to them. As it was written in the letters that she had sent to them, 12 (D)they proclaimed a fast and set Naboth at the head of the people. 13 And the two worthless men came in and sat opposite him. And the worthless men brought a charge against Naboth in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king.” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death with stones.
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- 1 Kings 21:10 Hebrew blessed; also verse 13
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