Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
Parallel translations
- WEB Don’t you add to his words, lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar.
- BSB Do not add to His words, lest He rebuke you and prove you a liar.
- NKJV Do not add to His words, Lest He rebuke you, and you be found a liar.
- NASB Do not add to His words Or He will rebuke you, and you will be proved a liar.
- NLT Do not add to his words, or he may rebuke you and expose you as a liar.
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Quick answer
Do not add to God's words, or He will rebuke you and expose you as a liar.
Overview
Because God's word is flawless, human additions corrupt rather than improve it and presume to speak for God falsely. This warning guards the sufficiency and purity of divine revelation. It calls believers to humble submission to Scripture as it stands, neither subtracting from nor inflating it, a reverence the New Testament echoes in its closing warnings.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Deut 12:32What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
- Deut 4:2Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
- Rev 22:18–19For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
- Job 13:7–9Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
- 1 Cor 15:15Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.
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