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Proverbs 24:28-31
Living Bible
Proverbs 24:28-31
Living Bible
28-29 Don’t testify spitefully against an innocent neighbor. Why lie about him? Don’t say, “Now I can pay him back for all his meanness to me!”
30-31 I walked by the field of a certain lazy fellow and saw that it was overgrown with thorns; it was covered with weeds, and its walls were broken down.
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Proverbs 24:28-30
New International Version
Proverbs 24:28-30
New International Version
28 Do not testify against your neighbor without cause(A)—
would you use your lips to mislead?
29 Do not say, “I’ll do to them as they have done to me;
I’ll pay them back for what they did.”(B)
30 I went past the field of a sluggard,(C)
past the vineyard of someone who has no sense;
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