EVIDENCE

Passages on this topic · 22

• Exodus 20:16

  “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

• Exodus 23:1

  “You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

• Exodus 23:7

  “Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.

• Leviticus 5:1

  “‘If anyone sins, in that he hears the voice of adjuration, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he doesn’t report it, then he shall bear his iniquity.

• Leviticus 24:14

  “Bring out of the camp him who cursed; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.

• Numbers 35:30

  “‘Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses; but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die.

• Deuteronomy 17:6

  At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, he who is to die shall be put to death. At the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.

• Deuteronomy 17:7

  The hand of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

• Deuteronomy 19:15

  One 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.

• Deuteronomy 19:16

  If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,

• Deuteronomy 19:17

  then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days;

• Deuteronomy 19:18

  and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother;

• Deuteronomy 19:19

  then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

• Deuteronomy 19:20

  Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and will never again commit any such evil among you.

• Deuteronomy 19:21

  Your eyes shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

• Joshua 7:19

  Joshua said to Achan, “My son, please give glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and make confession to him. Tell me now what you have done! Don’t hide it from me!”

• Joshua 7:20

  Achan answered Joshua, and said, “I have truly sinned against Yahweh, the God of Israel, and this is what I have done.

• Joshua 7:21

  When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.”

• Proverbs 24:28

  Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.

• Matthew 18:16

  But if he doesn’t listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

• Matthew 19:18

  He 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.’

• Hebrews 10:28

  A man who disregards Moses’ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.