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 each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another.
• Prov 25:18Like a club or sword or sharp arrow is a man who bears false witness against his neighbor.
• Matt 26:59–60Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false testimony against Jesus in order to put Him to death.
• 1 Kgs 21:9–13In the letters she wrote: “Proclaim a fast and give Naboth a seat of honor among the people.
• Prov 19:9A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who pours out lies will perish.
• Prov 14:5An honest witness does not deceive, but a dishonest witness pours forth lies.
• Prov 19:5A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who utters lies will not escape.
• Prov 21:28A lying witness will perish, but the man who listens to truth will speak forever.
• Job 2:3Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.”
• Col 3:9Do not lie to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices,
• Ps 35:11Hostile witnesses come forward; they make charges I know nothing about.
• Ps 35:7For without cause they laid their net for me; without reason they dug a pit for my soul.
• Ps 52:1For the choirmaster. A Maskil of David. After Doeg the Edomite went to Saul and told him, “David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.” Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The loving devotion of God endures all day long.
• Matt 27:23“Why?” asked Pilate. “What evil has He done?” But they shouted all the louder, “Crucify Him!”
• John 15:25But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’
• Rev 22:15But outside 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. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness.
• Rev 21:8But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
• Exod 20:16You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
• 1 Sam 22:9–10But Doeg the Edomite, who had stationed himself with Saul’s servants, answered: “I saw the son of Jesse come to Ahimelech son of Ahitub at Nob.

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