Deuteronomy 5:20
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
BSB
ASV
Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbor.
KJV
Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Exodus 20:16You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
leads to
A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who utters lies will not escape.
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
“You shall not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
“Which ones?” the man asked. Jesus answered, “‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness,
who has no slander on his tongue, who does no harm to his neighbor, who casts no scorn on his friend,
A lone witness is not sufficient to establish any wrongdoing or sin against a man, regardless of what offense he may have committed. A matter must be established by the testimony of two or…
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Exodus 23:1“You shall not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness.
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Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.
If a false witness testifies against someone, accusing him of a crime,
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
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Proverbs 19:5A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who utters lies will not escape.
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A lying witness will perish, but the man who listens to truth will speak forever.