FALSE TEACHERS

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• 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.

• Leviticus 6:3

  or has found that which was lost, and dealt falsely therein, and swearing to a lie; in any of these things that a man does, sinning therein;

• Leviticus 19:11

  “‘You shall not steal. “‘You shall not lie. “‘You shall not deceive one another.

• Leviticus 19:12

  “‘You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.

• Leviticus 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.

• Deuteronomy 5:20

  “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

• 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.

• 1 Kings 21:13

  The two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him. The base fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones.

• Psalms 27:12

  Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.

• Psalms 35:11

  Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about.

• Proverbs 6:16

  There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:

• Proverbs 6:17

  haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;

• Proverbs 6:18

  a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

• Proverbs 6:19

  a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

• Proverbs 12:17

  He who is truthful testifies honestly, but a false witness lies.

• Proverbs 14:5

  A truthful witness will not lie, but a false witness pours out lies.

• Proverbs 14:8

  The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

• Proverbs 14:25

  A truthful witness saves souls, but a false witness is deceitful.

• Proverbs 18:5

  To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice.

• Proverbs 19:9

  A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.

• Proverbs 19:22

  That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness. A poor man is better than a liar.

• Proverbs 19:28

  A corrupt witness mocks justice, and the mouth of the wicked gulps down iniquity.

• Proverbs 21:28

  A false witness will perish, and a man who listens speaks to eternity.

• Proverbs 24:28

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

• Proverbs 25:18

  A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.

• Zechariah 5:3

  Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land; for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the other side.

• Zechariah 5:4

  I will cause it to go out,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the middle of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones.”

• Matthew 15:19

  For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

• 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.’

• Matthew 26:59

  Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;

• Matthew 26:60

  and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward,

• Matthew 26:61

  and said, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.’”

• Mark 14:54

  Peter had followed him from a distance, until he came into the court of the high priest. He was sitting with the officers, and warming himself in the light of the fire.

• Mark 14:55

  Now the chief priests and the whole council sought witnesses against Jesus to put him to death, and found none.

• Mark 14:56

  For many gave false testimony against him, and their testimony didn’t agree with each other.

• Mark 14:57

  Some stood up, and gave false testimony against him, saying,

• Mark 14:58

  “We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.’”

• Mark 14:59

  Even so, their testimony did not agree.

• Luke 3:14

  Soldiers 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.”

• Luke 18:20

  You know the commandments: ‘Don’t commit adultery,’ ‘Don’t murder,’ ‘Don’t steal,’ ‘Don’t give false testimony,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’”

• Acts 6:11

  Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”

• Acts 6:13

  and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

• Acts 16:20

  When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, “These men, being Jews, are agitating our city,

• Acts 16:21

  and advocate customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans.”

• Acts 17:5

  But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.

• Acts 17:6

  When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,

• Acts 17:7

  whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!”

• Acts 24:5

  For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

• Acts 25:7

  When he had come, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing against him many and grievous charges which they could not prove,

• Acts 25:8

  while he said in his defense, “Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned at all.”

• Romans 13:9

  For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

• 1 Timothy 1:9

  as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

• 1 Timothy 1:10

  for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;