Exodus 23:1

You shall not spread false reports or join the wicked as a malicious witness. Truthfulness in testimony protects justice and the innocent.

Cross-references · 37

• Ps 101:5I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.
• Prov 19:5A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.
• Deut 19:16–21If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,
• Exod 20:16“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
• Matt 26:59–61Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;
• 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.
• Deut 5:20“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
• Rom 3:8Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), “Let us do evil, that good may come?” Those who say so are justly condemned.
• Ps 35:11Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about.
• Acts 6:11–13Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”
• Prov 19:9A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.
• Rev 12:10I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ has come; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.
• Prov 21:28A false witness will perish, and a man who listens speaks to eternity.
• Prov 10:18He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.
• Ps 15:3He who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;
• Lev 19:11“‘You shall not steal. “‘You shall not lie. “‘You shall not deceive one another.
• Eph 4:25Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.
• 1 Pet 3:16having a good conscience; that, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.
• Prov 6:19a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.
• 2 Tim 3:3without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,
• Exod 23:7“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.
• Prov 19:28A corrupt witness mocks justice, and the mouth of the wicked gulps down iniquity.
• 2 Sam 19:27He has slandered your servant to my lord the king, but my lord the king is as an angel of God. Do therefore what is good in your eyes.
• Jer 20:10For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.”
• Prov 25:23The north wind produces rain; so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.
• Matt 28:14–15If this comes to the governor’s ears, we will persuade him and make you free of worry.”
• 2 Sam 16:3The king said, “Where is your master’s son?” Ziba said to the king, “Behold, he is staying in Jerusalem; for he said, ‘Today the house of Israel will restore me the kingdom of my father.’”
• Ps 120:3What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue?
• Ps 27:12Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.
• Prov 12:17He who is truthful testifies honestly, but a false witness lies.
• 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.’
• Luke 19:8Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.”
• Prov 25:18A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.
• Prov 17:4An evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.
• Luke 3:14Soldiers also asked him, saying, “What about us? What must we do?” He said to them, “Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages.”
• Prov 24:28Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.
• 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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