Proverbs 24:28

Do not testify against your neighbor without cause or use your words to deceive. Speech must be truthful and just.

Cross-references · 20

• Eph 4:25Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.
• Prov 25:18A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.
• 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;
• 1 Kgs 21:9–13She wrote in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
• Prov 19:9A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.
• Prov 14:5A truthful witness will not lie, but a false witness pours out lies.
• Prov 19:5A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.
• Prov 21:28A false witness will perish, and a man who listens speaks to eternity.
• Job 2:3Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”
• Col 3:9Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,
• Ps 35:11Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about.
• Ps 35:7For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
• Ps 52:1For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, “David has come to Ahimelech’s house.” Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.
• Matt 27:23But the governor said, “Why? What evil has he done?” But they cried out exceedingly, saying, “Let him be crucified!”
• John 15:25But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’
• Rev 22:15Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
• Exod 23:1“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
• Rev 21:8But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
• Exod 20:16“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
• 1 Sam 22:9–10Then Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, answered and said, “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.

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