Proverbs 24:28
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New International Version (©1984)
Do not testify against your neighbor without cause, or use your lips to deceive.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, And do not deceive with your lips.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Do not testify against your neighbor without a reason, and do not deceive with your lips.

King James Bible
Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.

American King James Version
Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause; and deceive not with your lips.

American Standard Version
Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause; And deceive not with thy lips.

Bible in Basic English
Do not be a violent witness against your neighbour, or let your lips say what is false.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Be not witness without cause against thy neighbour: and deceive not any man with thy lips.

Darby Bible Translation
Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and wouldest thou deceive with thy lips?

English Revised Version
Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.

Webster's Bible Translation
Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.

World English Bible
Don't be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don't deceive with your lips.

Young's Literal Translation
Be not a witness for nought against thy neighbour, Or thou hast enticed with thy lips.

Geneva Study Bible

Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

28. Do not speak even truth needlessly against any, and never falsehood.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

24:28,29. There are three defaults in a witness pointed out.


Leviticus 6:2 "When a person sins and acts unfaithfully against the LORD, and deceives his companion in regard to a deposit or a security entrusted to him, or through robbery, or if he has extorted from his companion,
Leviticus 6:3 or has found what was lost and lied about it and sworn falsely, so that he sins in regard to any one of the things a man may do;
Leviticus 19:11 'You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.
Proverbs 25:18 Like a club and a sword and a sharp arrow Is a man who bears false witness against his neighbor.
Ephesians 4:25 Therefore, laying aside falsehood, SPEAK TRUTH EACH ONE of you WITH HIS NEIGHBOR, for we are members of one another. (NASB ©1995)

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Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.

not 14:5 19:5,9 21:28 Ex 20:16 23:1 1Sa 22:9,10 1Ki 21:9-13 Job 2:3 Ps 35:7,11 Mt 26:59,60 27:23 Joh 15:25

deceive Eph 4:25 Col 3:9 Re 21:8 22:15

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