Proverbs 24:28
Do not testify against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.
BSB
ASV
Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause; And deceive not with thy lips.
KJV
Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.
Be not a witness - Do not be forward to offer thyself to bear testimony against a neighbor, in a matter which may prejudice him, where the essential claims of justice do not require such interference; and especially do not do this in a spirit of revenge, because he has injured thee before.
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.
Through
Ephesians 4:25Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another.
leads to
Do not lie to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices,
These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another, render true and sound judgments in your gates,
Lying lips are detestable to the LORD, but those who deal faithfully are His delight.
so in Christ we who are many are one body, and each member belongs to one another.
Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ Himself, who is the head.
Through
Proverbs 19:5A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who utters lies will not escape.
leads to
A lying witness will perish, but the man who listens to truth will speak forever.
a false witness who gives false testimony, and one who stirs up discord among brothers.
“You shall not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.