Exodus 20:16

The ninth commandment forbids false testimony against your neighbor. Truthfulness protects others and reflects the God of truth.

Cross-references · 19

• Prov 19:5A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.
• Matt 19:18He said to him, “Which ones?” Jesus said, “‘You shall not murder.’ ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ ‘You shall not steal.’ ‘You shall not offer false testimony.’
• Ps 15:3He who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;
• Exod 23:1“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
• Deut 19:15–21One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins. At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.
• Matt 26:59–60Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;
• Prov 10:18He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.
• Acts 6:13and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.
• Ps 101:5–7I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.
• Exod 23:6–7“You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.
• Lev 19:11“‘You shall not steal. “‘You shall not lie. “‘You shall not deceive one another.
• Eph 4:31Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.
• 1 Tim 1:10for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;
• Prov 11:13One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.
• 2 Tim 3:3without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,
• Jas 4:11Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.
• 1 Sam 22:8–19that all of you have conspired against me, and there is no one who discloses to me when my son makes a treaty with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me, or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as it is today?”
• Lev 19:16“‘You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people. “‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.
• 1 Kgs 21:10–13Set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, ‘You cursed God and the king!’ Then carry him out, and stone him to death.”

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