Exodus 20:16
New King James Version
16 (A)“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Exodus 20:16
English Standard Version
16 (A)“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
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Deuteronomy 5:20
New King James Version
20 (A)‘You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Deuteronomy 5:20
English Standard Version
20 “‘And you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
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Deuteronomy 19:16-21
New King James Version
16 If a false witness (A)rises against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing, 17 then both men in the controversy shall stand before the Lord, (B)before the priests and the judges who serve in those days. 18 And the judges shall make careful inquiry, and indeed, if the witness is a false witness, who has testified falsely against his brother, 19 (C)then you shall do to him as he thought to have done to his brother; so (D)you shall put away the evil from among you. 20 (E)And those who remain shall hear and fear, and hereafter they shall not again commit such evil among you. 21 (F)Your eye shall not pity: (G)life shall be for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
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Deuteronomy 19:16-21
English Standard Version
16 If (A)a malicious witness arises to accuse a person of wrongdoing, 17 then both parties to the dispute shall appear before the Lord, (B)before the priests and the judges who are in office in those days. 18 The judges shall (C)inquire diligently, and if the witness is a false witness and has accused his brother falsely, 19 (D)then you shall do to him as he had meant to do to his brother. So you shall purge the evil[a] from your midst. 20 And the rest (E)shall hear and fear, and shall never again commit any such evil among you. 21 (F)Your eye shall not pity. (G)It shall be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
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- Deuteronomy 19:19 Or evil person
Psalm 27:12
New King James Version
12 Do not deliver me to the will of my adversaries;
For (A)false witnesses have risen against me,
And such as breathe out violence.
Psalm 27:12
English Standard Version
12 (A)Give me not up to the will of my adversaries;
for (B)false witnesses have risen against me,
and they (C)breathe out violence.
Psalm 35:11
New King James Version
11 Fierce witnesses rise up;
They ask me things that I do not know.
Psalm 35:11
English Standard Version
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- Psalm 35:11 Or Violent
Proverbs 19:5
New King James Version
5 A (A)false witness will not go unpunished,
And he who speaks lies will not escape.
Proverbs 19:5
English Standard Version
Acts 6:11
New King James Version
11 (A)Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”
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Acts 6:11
English Standard Version
11 Then (A)they secretly instigated men who said, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”
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